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Re: w32-get-clipboard-data


From: Stephen Coda
Subject: Re: w32-get-clipboard-data
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 02:09:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, 3 September 2015 02:35:29 UTC+1, Random832  wrote:
> Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 06:35:26 UTC+1, Random832  wrote:
> > Hi Random832,
> >
> > It is set up by an admin:) 
> > I think it might well be a security issue, and that maybe websecure
> > anywhere is responsible. But I don't have access to the settings and
> > have submitted a ticket to get this looked into.
> >
> > And just tried GetClipboardData, it is returning null....
> 
> What does OpenClipboard return? You have to have called it, and had it
> return TRUE/1, before you're allowed to call GetClipboardData.
> 
> One thing I noticed looking over the Emacs code is that it bails out
> immediately without any sort of retry dance if OpenClipboard fails - and
> it *does* fail, rather than block, if some other app has the clipoard
> open at the moment it is called. Are you *ever* able to paste into
> Emacs? If this is intermittent, maybe there's some other app running
> that just opens it very often and you keep colliding with it.

OpenCliboard returns true. 
I didn't think I could paste under any circs in emacs, but this morning 
discovered I can if chrome isn't open... So it does look like some sort of 
collision.

Kind regards,
Steve


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