Re: Watching a pasteboard
Re: Watching a pasteboard
- Subject: Re: Watching a pasteboard
- From: Heinrich Giesen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:08:30 +0200
On 02.04.2005, at 18:25, Massimiliano Origgi wrote:
Is it possible to be notified in some way when the contents of a
pasteboard get changed?
No.
The only solution so far would be to poll for the change count value,
Yes.
but clearly it's ugly
No, it's common for a lot of UNIX tasks
inefficient
No
If you set a timer that fires two or three times per second the
cpu usage is within microseconds. I did so for an application
that permanently observes changes on the pasteboard server
and shows the current contents of the several pasteboards.
For me it worked perfectly
--
Heinrich Giesen
email: email@hidden
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