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XmClipboardRetrieve
NAME
XmClipboardRetrieve - A clipboard function that retrieves a data item from the clipboard
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
#include <Xm/CutPaste.h>
int XmClipboardRetrieve (display, window, format_name,
buffer, length, num_bytes, private_id)
Display * display;
Window window;
char * format_name;
XtPointer buffer;
unsigned long length;
unsigned long * num_bytes;
long * private_id;
DESCRIPTION
XmClipboardRetrieve retrieves the current data
item from clipboard storage. It returns a warning if the clipboard is
locked; if there is no data on the clipboard; or if the data needs to
be truncated because the buffer length is too short.
Between a call to XmClipboardStartRetrieve and a
call to XmClipboardEndRetrieve,
multiple calls to XmClipboardRetrieve with the same
format name result in data being incrementally copied from the
clipboard until the data in that format has all been copied.
The return value ClipboardTruncate from calls to
XmClipboardRetrieve indicates that more data remains
to be copied in the given format. It is recommended that any calls to
the Inquire functions that the application needs to
make to effect the copy from the clipboard be made between the call to
XmClipboardStartRetrieve and
the first call to XmClipboardRetrieve. That way, the
application does not need to call XmClipboardLock and XmClipboardUnlock.
- display
- Specifies a pointer to the Display structure
that was returned in a previous call to XOpenDisplay
or XtDisplay.
- window
- Specifies a widget's window ID that relates the application
window to the clipboard. The widget's window ID can be obtained by
using XtWindow. The same application instance should
pass the same window ID to each of the clipboard functions that it
calls.
- format_name
- Specifies the name of a format in which the data is stored on
the clipboard.
- buffer
- Specifies the buffer to which the application wants the
clipboard to copy the data.
- length
- Specifies the length of the application buffer.
- num_bytes
- Specifies the number of bytes of data copied into the
application buffer.
- private_id
- Specifies the private data stored with the data item by the
application that placed the data item on the clipboard. If the
application did not store private data with the data item, this
argument returns zero.
RETURN VALUE
- ClipboardSuccess
- The function is successful.
- ClipboardLocked
- The function failed because the clipboard was locked by another
application. The application can continue to call the function again
with the same parameters until the lock goes away. This gives the
application the opportunity to ask if the user wants to keep trying or
to give up on the operation.
- ClipboardTruncate
- The data returned is truncated because the user did not provide
a buffer large enough to hold the data.
- ClipboardNoData
- The function could not find data on the clipboard corresponding
to the format requested. This could occur because the clipboard is
empty; there is data on the clipboard but not in the requested format;
or the data in the requested format was passed by name and is no
longer available.
RELATED INFORMATION
XmClipboardEndRetrieve(3X),
XmClipboardLock(3X),
XmClipboardStartCopy(3X),
XmClipboardStartRetrieve(3X),
and XmClipboardUnlock(3X).