Re: Amiga and BeOS front end selection/clipboard handling

On 02/08/2012 16:41, Michael Drake wrote:
>
> I've removed the use of render/box.h from most front ends' selection and
> clipboard handling.
>
> This meant stopping the front ends from using selection_traverse(), which
> will be removed from the header file, and made static in
> desktop/selection.c.
>
> The Amiga and BeOS front ends remain.
>
> We need to work out what is required on these platforms so that this can
> happen without breaking those builds.

>From memory this is used to walk the text to collect the font and colors
to create the text_runs to include in the clipboard:
http://revolf.free.fr/beos/shots/shot_beos_netsurf_styled_clipboard.png

While it is not really required it's a useful feature I think.
We could probably come up with an accessor useful for others too.

François.