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To: P E Jareth Hein <jhod@po.iijnet.or.jp>
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Subject: Re: 20.1 b2 x-get-selection seems broken 
In-reply-to: "P E Jareth Hein" of Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:29:10 +0900
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>>>>> "Jareth" == P E Jareth Hein <of Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:29:10 +0900> writes:

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kifer <kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU> writes:

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz writes:

    Michael> If I select something outside xemacs window (say, in
    Michael> xterm), (x-get-selection) causes an error:

    Michael> selection owner couldn't convert: COMPOUND_TEXT

    Martin> I have seen this occasionally, but have not been able to
    Martin> reliably reproduce it.  Anyways, Michael's particular example
    Martin> works for me.

    Jareth> Just out of curiosity, is that R6 or R6.1 (or even R6.3)? I do know
    Jareth> that the conversion code for compound text was completly
    Jareth> rewritten in 
    Jareth> R6.2, and that both before and after that there are major problems
    Jareth> with it (API not standardized inside Xlib, etc) I've not looked
    Jareth> at the 
    Jareth> 6.0 code, but am struggling with fixing the 6.3 right now. I'll
    Jareth> also 
    Jareth> glance at 6.1 and see what I can find there.

    I don't know which, probably 6.1 (source is not installed on my sparc).

    But Martin says (see above) that my example works for him all the time,
    and he is probably using Solaris with OpenWin or DCE. So, it is not
    restricted to some older version of X11R6.
    


	--michael  




