From: Manuel Giraud
Subject: [CLX] Properties
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:42:04 +0000
Message-ID: <qs3wuupeipf.fsf@yoko.inria.fr>

Hi, I'm actually hacking a bit with CLX. Does any one knows how to retrieve the
data of a X-Window property "formatted" accordingly to a type specifier ?

For example, I'd like to retrieve a text property in a string.

So far, I've tried the following:

* (xlib:change-property win :wm_name "foo" :wm_name 8)
* (xlib:get-property win :wm_name :result-type 'string) --> error

I also tried to coerce the result to a string: that leads to the same error as
above. 

Any hints about how to do this kind of stuff ?

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_Manuel Giraud_

From: Eric Marsden
Subject: Re: [CLX] Properties
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:54:43 +0000
Message-ID: <wzi8z71vf7g.fsf@melbourne.laas.fr>

>>>>> "mg" == Manuel Giraud <······@sor.inria.fr> writes:

  mg> Does any one knows how to retrieve the data of a X-Window
  mg> property "formatted" accordingly to a type specifier ?
  mg> 
  mg> For example, I'd like to retrieve a text property in a string.
  mg> 
  mg> So far, I've tried the following:
  mg> 
  mg> * (xlib:change-property win :wm_name "foo" :wm_name 8)
  mg> * (xlib:get-property win :wm_name :result-type 'string) --> error

you can use something like
  
  (xlib:get-property win :cut_buffer0
        :type :string
        :result-type 'string
        :transform #'xlib:card8->char)
  
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Eric Marsden                          <URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/>