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[Daniel Yoo]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, D-Man wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:56:09PM -0800, Matthias Hager wrote: | I
> know you guys are about to rip your hair out over me, I'm annoying I
> know! But I have some questions here on how to do some special stuff
> in Python. (And is it possible to use a GUI with Perl?)

Don't sweat about it; we like talking to people.  *grin*

I've heard that Perl/Tk is really good.  In fact, the winner of this
year's Obfuscated Perl contest is a Frogger game written in Perl/Tk.

    http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/obfusc-5-awards.html


> | 1. How do I access the clipboard, so I can make cut and paste options?
> 
> MS Windows?  X?  I don't know for either, but if you are using Windows
> try the win32all module maintained by Mark Hammond.

Hard question.  I don't know how Windows does it, but on UNIX platforms,
it goes all over the place.  I have a small example that uses Gtk+'s
interface, but it's just awkward:

    http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/

When I was trying to do selections, lots of people recommened me to jwz's
page:

    http://www.jwz.org/doc/

especially the part about "X Cut and Paste":

    http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

Supposedly, the details make even grown men cry.  *grin*