Re: SelectionNotify and GtkText, etc...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Mike Benham <moxie@vivid.net> writes:

> 	When a GtkText widget receives a proper (xlib) SelectionNotify
> event without having previously requested a selection by sending a
> SelectionRequest event or calling XConvertSelection(), it responds by
> promptly doing nothing.  Why is this?  Is there any way to make a Gtk
> widget receive a selection without it having asked for it?

Should there be? What use would this feature be?

(The ICCCM certainly doesn't imply that you should handle random
 SelectionNotify events; I don't think that other toolkits do so
 either, though I never even thought of investigating the possibility.)

Regards,
                                        Owen