NAME
XmClipboardRegisterFormat — A clipboard function that registers a new
format
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/CutPaste.h>
int XmClipboardRegisterFormat (display, format_name, format_length)
Display * display;
char * format_name;
int format_length;
(void)
DESCRIPTION
XmClipboardRegisterFormat registers a new format. Each format stored on
the clipboard should have a length associated with it; this length must
be known to the clipboard routines. Formats are known as targets in the
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM). All of the
formats specified by version 1.1 of the ICCCM conventions are
preregistered. Any other format that the application wants to use must
either be 8-bit data or be registered via this routine. Failure to
register the length of the data results in incompatible applications
across platforms having different byte-swapping orders.
display Specifies a pointer to the Display structure that was
returned in a previous call to XOpenDisplay or XtDisplay.
format_name
Specifies the string name for the new format (target).
format_length
Specifies the format length in bits (8, 16, or 32).
RETURN
XmClipboardBadFormat
The format_name must not be NULL, and the format_length must
be 8, 16, or 32.
XmClipboardSuccess
The function was successful.
XmClipboardLocked
The function failed because the clipboard was locked by
another application. The application can continue to call the
function again with the same parameters until the lock goes
away. This gives the application the opportunity to ask if
the user wants to keep trying or to give up on the operation.
XmClipboardFail
The function failed because the specified format was already
registered with a different length from that specified now.
If a specified format was already registered with the same
length as that specified now, XmClipboardSuccess is returned.
RELATED
XmClipboardStartCopy(3).
XmClipboardRegisterFormat(library call)