From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-08-31T09:04:05+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and clipboard contents

Hal Fulton wrote:

> My impression was that he wanted to do it "programmatically" without
> doing a paste, e.g.,
> 
>   text = FXfoobarWindowsStuff.clipboard.get      # or whatever
>   FXfoobarWindowsStuff.clipboard.copy("Hello!")  # "Hello!" into clipbd
> 
> I've also been interested in this but have never asked.

Oh, OK. Let me do some research and see exactly how that's being done 
and come up with some sample code. I think the *basic* data transfer 
protocol is along the same lines as that described in the FXRuby 
drag-and-drop tutorial, but simplified somewhat.