Re: obtaining the selection: gtk_selection_convert?

[Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>]

sen_ml@eccosys.com writes:

> my guess would have been to add:
> 
>   (define-func gtk_selection_convert
>     int
>     ((GtkWidget widget)
>      (GdkAtom selection)
>      (GdkAtom target)
>      (uint time)))
> 
> but, there does not appear to be a relevant defintion of GdkAtom.
> would that be difficult to add?

I think GdkAtom is Gdk's idea of what Scheme calls a symbol.  So we
should probably add a new primitive type `atom' to build-guile-gtk and
convert between atoms and symbols automatically.

I'll look into this and when it easy enough, I'll add it tonight.

- Marius