XClipboard

Hi everyone,

I already send a mail here about my copy/paste that doesn't work between
Chromium and Pharo3/4.
Since I use more and more Pharo and I don't want to move from Chromium,
I tried to find a solution to my problem and so I did.

Ok, I must admit, it's brutal but I managed to get the content from the
clipboard (after copying something from chromium) using 'xclip -o' with
PipeableOSProcess help.

So I looked at
Clipboard>>clipboardText
| string decodedString |
    string := self primitiveClipboardText.
    (string isEmpty
            or: [string = contents asString])
        ifTrue: [^ contents].
    decodedString := string convertFromWithConverter: UTF8TextConverter new.
    decodedString := decodedString replaceAll: 10 asCharacter with: 13
asCharacter.
    ^ decodedString = contents asString
        ifTrue: [contents]
        ifFalse: [decodedString asText].

and overrided it in UnixClipboard>>clipboardText as follow:

UnixClipboard>>clipboardText
| string decodedString |
    string := (PipeableOSProcess command: '/usr/bin/xclip -o') output.
    decodedString := string convertFromWithConverter: UTF8TextConverter new.
    decodedString := decodedString replaceAll: 10 asCharacter with: 13
asCharacter.
    ^ decodedString = contents asString
        ifTrue: [contents]
        ifFalse: [decodedString asText].

This trick works pretty well for me even if I'm sure it's not the best
way to do it.

I saw that it's possible to get the content of x11 clipboard in C using
x11 libs but I think it would be a waste of time to implement it and
then call C code from Pharo since I think the way I did it is fast
enough. So that's why I choose this quick solution.

Anyway, I send this mail to inform that I made with this called
XClipboard, simply load it with:

Gofer new
    url: 'http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/JulienDelplanque/XClipboard/main';
    package: #ConfigurationOfXClipboard;
    load.
   
ConfigurationOfXClipboard loadDevelopment.

if you want to look at it.

What do you think about it? Is there a better way to do that easily?
Does anyone see a problem with this "quick fix"?

As I said for me it works well for the moment but I can't be certain it
will in any case.

Thanks in advance,

Julien

Ho thanks for pointing me this solution it works well. I will use it
because I don't like the fact I had to touch to the System for my solution.

You're saving me from a lot of Chromium->Sublime Text, Sublime
Text->Pharo :)

Thank you once again!

Julien

On 24/03/15 21:30, Peter Uhnák wrote: