Copy & Paste

[Dave]

I'm implementing clipboard access, so that it'll be possible to copy-paste from the system clipboard to textboxes in Wesnoth and vice-versa.

I've added a pair of files, clipboard.cpp/.hpp which contain the following functions:

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void copy_to_clipboard(const std::string& text);
std::string copy_from_clipboard();

The usage of these functions should be fairly self-explanatory. I've implemented these functions for Windows.

If users of other OSes would like to write implementations for their OSes, and post patches, that'd be great

David

[ahwayakchih]

I'm implementing clipboard access, so that it'll be possible to copy-paste from the system clipboard to textboxes in Wesnoth and vice-versa.
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If users of other OSes would like to write implementations for their OSes, and post patches, that'd be great

I've added code for BeOS, but i need to be sure about one thing before i'll post it:
What encoding is used for text in wesnoth? i suspect it's UNICODE (not UTF-8 )... but i want to be 100%. If it's not UTF-8 than i'll have to add conversion because on BeOS UTF-8 is "default", and if we want to be compatible with other BeOS apps it would be better to keep the same encoding .

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hehe, UTF-8 closed in () creates emoticon, had to add space

[Ayin]

Wesnoth uses UTF-8 internally. except in textboxes where text is converted to a wide_string. So, in textboxes, where cut&paste is to be made, it is Unicode.

However, the functions wstring_to_string and string_to_wstring, located in language.cpp, do the trick.

[Dave]

Wesnoth uses UTF-8 internally. except in textboxes where text is converted to a wide_string. So, in textboxes, where cut&paste is to be made, it is Unicode.

However, the functions wstring_to_string and string_to_wstring, located in language.cpp, do the trick.

Yeah I plan to eventually change it over to UTF-8.

Now it just kinda uses truncated Unicode

David

[ahwayakchih]

so text passed to function "void copy_to_clipboard(const std::string& text)" is (will be?) UTF-8? and "std::string copy_from_clipboard(); " returns UTF-8 string, right?

[Dave]

so text passed to function "void copy_to_clipboard(const std::string& text)" is (will be?) UTF-8? and "std::string copy_from_clipboard(); " returns UTF-8 string, right?

Correct.

I think.

David

[SadEagle]

For those using X11, there is a patch for X clipboard support in Savannah, so you may want to not start on any new implementations for that platform, unless mine gives you nightmares