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- clipboard append ?-displayof window? ?-format format? ?-type type? ?--? data
Appends
data to the clipboard on
window 's display in the form given by
type with the representation given by
format and claims ownership of the clipboard on
window 's display.
Type specifies the form in which the selection is to be returned (the desired "target" for conversion, in
ICCCM terminology), and should be an atom name such as STRING or FILE_NAME; see the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual for complete details.
Type defaults to STRING.
The
format argument specifies the representation that should be used to transmit the selection to the requester (the second column of Table 2 of the
ICCCM), and defaults to STRING. If
format is STRING, the selection is transmitted as 8-bit ASCII characters. If
format is ATOM, then the
data is divided into fields separated by white space; each field is converted to its atom value, and the 32-bit atom value is transmitted instead of the atom name. For any other
format,
data is divided into fields separated by white space and each field is converted to a 32-bit integer; an array of integers is transmitted to the selection requester. Note that strings passed to
clipboard append are concatenated before conversion, so the caller must take care to ensure appropriate spacing across string boundaries. All items appended to the clipboard with the same
type must have the same
format.
The
format argument is needed only for compatibility with clipboard requesters that don't use Tk. If the Tk toolkit is being used to retrieve the CLIPBOARD selection then the value is converted back to a string at the requesting end, so
format is irrelevant.
A -- argument may be specified to mark the end of options: the next argument will always be used as
data. This feature may be convenient if, for example,
data starts with a -.
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