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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: selection in khexdit
From:       Johannes Sixt <Johannes.Sixt () telecom ! at>
Date:       1997-12-21 15:21:40
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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>Currrently, I'm planing to select just the hex data and leave
>the rest alone. But how should I put it in the Clipboard? Raw
>data or text? Raw data would make sense, if you want to move
>text within khexdit, but text would make more sense, if you
>need it later. 
>
>But how should I format the hex data (btw: the format in khexdit
>will be configurable very soon), if I use text? Should I stay
>with the format in khexdit or should I format the text extra?

I would have expected that the X11 clipboard supports multiple formats! khexdit 
tells which formats it can provide, and the requstor then tells khexdit which
format (out of these) it wants, and khexdit provides that one then.

If that's not the way it works, I propose that you place the selection on the
clipboard always as text as formatted in the khexdit window. That's the most
useful one, IMO. If you later want to provide raw data, you change khexdit such
that the user can also select data in the right column, where the unformatted
bytes appear. Then the format depends on what the user selected: text if
the selection is in the hex-view, raw data if the selection is in the right
column.

-- Hannes

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