Clipboard functionality across processes

Ulrich Czekalla ulrich at codeweavers.com
Fri May 14 12:25:18 CDT 2004


The clipboard code is in dlls/x11/clipboard.c. dlls/x11drv/wineclipsrv.c
contains the code for the separate process that is suppose to be launched to
host the clipboard data once the application exits. I haven't looked at
this in a while. I'm not sure what state it's in.

/Ulrich

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:23:34PM +0530, Santosh Siddheshwar wrote:
> Hi,
>   Any pointers to where to look for the relevant code which may need to be
> looked at?
> Regards
> Santosh Siddheshwar
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Ulrich Czekalla [SMTP:ulrich at codeweavers.com]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:13 PM
> > To:	Santosh Siddheshwar
> > Cc:	wine-devel at winehq.org
> > Subject:	Re: Clipboard functionality across processes
> > 
> > The short answer is no. We did have this functionality before and much of
> > the code is still in cvs but it was broken for some time and I've disabled
> > it. With a little bit of work it could be added back.
> > 
> > There are other ways to do this such as using klipper.
> > 
> > /Ulrich
> > 
> > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:00:35PM +0530, Santosh Siddheshwar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >   Does WINE support access to clipboard data across WINE processes. For
> > e.g.
> > > one app opens the clipboard and sets
> > > data into it using SetClipboardData, closes it and then exits. The other
> > app
> > > tries to retrieve this data.
> > > It works in windows but doesnt seem to do so in WINE.
> > > Regards
> > > Santosh Siddheshwar
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