Clipboard.waitForContents

Requests the contents of the clipboard using the given target. This function waits for the data to be received using the main loop, so events, timeouts, etc, may be dispatched during the wait.

class Clipboard
waitForContents

Parameters

target GdkAtom

an atom representing the form into which the clipboard owner should convert the selection.

Return Value

a newly-allocated gtk.SelectionData object or NULL if retrieving the given target failed. If non-NULL, this value must be freed with SelectionData.free when you are finished with it.