Sony blocked that in my country.

And yes it's a computer job, software development.

My first try

pepsi@fractalcomet:/home/prog/ClipBoardTest4 12:21 AM $ gcc -c -O2 -Wall Clipboard.c
Clipboard.c:216:23: error: X11/XAtom.h: No such file or directory
Clipboard.c: In function 'SetClipboardString':
Clipboard.c:226: error: 'XA_CLIPBOARD' undeclared (first use in this function)
Clipboard.c:226: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
Clipboard.c:226: error: for each function it appears in.)
Clipboard.c:226: error: 'XA_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
Clipboard.c: In function 'GetNewClipboardString':
Clipboard.c:253: error: 'XA_CLIPBOARD' undeclared (first use in this function)
Clipboard.c:255: error: 'XA_STRING' undeclared (first use in this function)
pepsi@fractalcomet:/home/prog/ClipBoardTest4 12:22 AM $ locate XAtom.h  //"Find" XAtom.h,
(case insensitive) not found since no output
pepsi@fractalcomet:/home/prog/ClipBoardTest4 12:23 AM $ gcc -c -O2 -Wall ClipboardTest.c
pepsi@fractalcomet:/home/prog/ClipBoardTest4 12:23 AM $ 

Anyway I found Xatom.h (not XAtom.h) is in a Slackware repository and installed it, but I still get

Clipboard.c:226: error: 'XA_CLIPBOARD' undeclared (first use in this function)

as well as line 253.

I copy and paste images from Firefox to kolourpaint all the time to zoom in, as well as to/from most any other program that handles images, even within the same program like a rubber stamp. Hell, I just copied a few lines from Clipboard.c and pasted them into kolourpaint in various places as an image.

[EDIT]

I found XA_CLIPBOARD in X11/Xmu/Atoms.h and found it needs a parameter for Display,
so #included it and changed all the XA_CLIPBOARD's to XA_CLIPBOARD(d) and it compiled without errors. Now I just need to find the libraries to link in

[EDIT2]

This is the command to get it to work.
gcc -O2 -Wall Clipboard.c ClipboardTest.c -o t -lXxf86vm -lXmu `allegro-config --libs`
but it just flashes a window too fast to see anything, no error messages on the console.

[EDIT4]

Oops! I didn't notice the bitmap wasn't in this zip, copied it from the last, and it showed a window saying to do this and that, but nothing worked. It left a ClipboardLog.txt that simply said "There are no bytes to read in the requested property."

You missed a couple things, and the doc says char *atom_name, so I put quotes around "CLIPBOARD" and "STRING" and it compiled without warnings or errors.

Now the S key says it successfully set the clipboard string to CyberMan, but nothing else works, the log file still says "There are no bytes to read in the requested property."

I put the altered file in the paperclip.

[EDIT]

This says my use of quotes was correct.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B1171-90150/ch10s01.html

Results were the exact same as last time, excepting it compiled properly. Perhaps I should add that the log file had two lines saying no bytes to read in this and the previous test.

Honestly, I can't think of anything that doesn't allow me to copy stuff, the pdf viewers are somewhat dodgy to use since you're trying to select text with a rectangle.

I found the file in the paperclip a couple hours ago right after trying your second try, and it works. When executed, it pastes what's in the clipboard onto the console screen before the prompt returns.

[EDIT]

I just thought of trying it after copying an image from kolourpaint, but nothing was shown. I thought it might paste the binary garbage, but no.

Images on clipboard:
http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/

Kwrite (text copy and paste)
Somewhere in
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/kde/kdebase.html

http://www.allegro.cc/files/download-attachment/?area=forum%20post&id=899543

It was in the post

I got curious about the kde dev thing and downloaded it myself. The kolourpaint app isn't in there, but something else called klipper was. I think this might be the thing that does the work for all X apps. I uploaded the 110K file to

http://ompldr.org/vNzJwOA/klipper.zip

[EDIT]

No, it's a thing that installs itself to the task bar as a little icon, when clicked it displays the last five text string copies, when you click on one, it's the current item to be pasted. Copying an image doesn't show up in the list.

He's trying to access copy and paste functions for text and images in an Allegro program for X11.

The XConvertSelection simply pointed to another man page so I included that one as well.

clicky

Now the Format Police are looking for us!

I had to change line 483 in Clipboard.c to this

target_atom_name = XGetAtomName( d,((long*)returned_property)[i]);

to get it to compile, otherwise it's doing the same thing. Only the S key item seems to succeed (except for the new L log function).

The logfile that results from hitting the key on each line is attached.

Sorry, I tend to catch up on these things upon awakening, and I wake up real slow (like now).

I didn't think of copying from another program, first I copied your avatar (!), but your program said there was nothing in the clipboard. Then I copied a sentence from the console and your program displayed the start of it until it went off screen. Then I copied about 10 lines out of your source and it displayed those. The entire length of the single sentence and the block of code were both written to the logfile.

The first sentence I pasted was "getcolor DejaVuSans18.tga 32" and the block of code starts at "int main..." on line 8.

Logging all available TARGETS :
The TARGETS property does not exist on the specified window. Bad window, bad.
Success retrieving property. Return type "STRING" , Format=8 , NumItemsReturned=29
   Bytes Left=0 , String Returned="getcolor DejaVuSans18.tga 32
"Logging all available TARGETS :
The TARGETS property does not exist on the specified window. Bad window, bad.
Success retrieving property. Return type "STRING" , Format=8 , NumItemsReturned=441
   Bytes Left=0 , String Returned="int main(int argc , char** argv) {
   int cd;
   int dw = 800;
   int dh = 600;
   BITMAP* cyberman = 0;
   BITMAP* buffer = 0;
   BITMAP* fromclipbmp = 0;
   char* fromclipstr = 0;
   int redraw = 1;
   int black = 0;
   int white = 0;
   int orange = 0;
   int ret = 0;
   
   if (allegro_init() != 0) {return 0;}
   if (install_keyboard() != 0) {return 0;}
   cd = desktop_color_depth();
   if (cd == 0) {cd = 32;}
   set_color_depth(cd);"