Tcl/Tk clipboard under Windows

[Michael S. Schliephake]

David Ascher wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Michael S. Schliephake wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone remarked the following problem and possibly a solution?
> >
> > (Win-NT 4, W98 - Python 1.5.2, Tk 8.05)
> > If you copy some text from a Tkinter-prog to the clipboard and the
> > program is finished immediately, one cannot paste the clipboard content
> > into another programm. If you paste before finishing the Python-program,
> > the clipboard content is how intended and remains there.
> >
> > ...
> 
> ... is this what you're doing?
> 
>     Tkinter._default_root.clipboard_clear()
>     Tkinter._default_root.clipboard_append(errmsg)
> 
> --david ascher

Yes, except that I did not use the default_root until now. I just
repeated it with a small script, which I append here. The problem is
"persistent", if you exit before pasting into another program, I cannot
find usable data in the clipboard.

Michael Schliephake
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