From: sgcjr@... (Steve Conover, Jr)
Date: 2003-09-01T10:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby and clipboard contents

> In the FXRuby distribution, the textedit.rb sample does support Copy and
> Paste, both to and from the Windows clipboard. So there definitely is some
> sort of FXText-based (and possibly FXWindow-based) cut/copy/paste clipboard
> support in the current FXRuby. I'd look into the methods onClipboardRequest,
> onClipboardGained, and onClipboardLost (and what events they are associated
> with) to gain further understanding. The methods are referenced in the SWIG
> wrapper FXText.i and FXWindow.i.

I tested this with an FXText object:

textwidget.handle(textwidget, MKUINT(FXText::ID_PASTE_SEL,
SEL_COMMAND), nil)

and it works great.  I've only used this on windows, maybe someone can
confirm that it works on Linux too...

This is what I was looking for - thanks everyone.

Regards,
Steve