Gdk.ContentProvider – gtk4 – Vala Binding Reference

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "gdk_content_provider_get_type ()" ) ]
public class ContentProvider : Object

A `GdkContentProvider` is used to provide content for the clipboard or for drag-and-drop operations in a number of formats.

To create a `GdkContentProvider`, use [[email protected]_for_value] or [[email protected]_for_bytes].

GDK knows how to handle common text and image formats out-of-the-box. See [[email protected]] and [ [email protected]] if you want to add support for application-specific data formats.

Namespace: Gdk

Package: gtk4

Content:

Properties:

public ContentFormats formats { owned get; }

The possible formats that the provider can provide its data in.

public ContentFormats storable_formats { owned get; }

The subset of formats that clipboard managers should store this provider's data in.

Creation methods:

protected ContentProvider ()

public ContentProvider.for_bytes (string mime_type, Bytes bytes)

Create a content provider that provides the given bytes as data for the given mime_type.

public ContentProvider.for_value (Value value)

Create a content provider that provides the given value.

public ContentProvider.union (owned ContentProvider[]? providers)

Creates a content provider that represents all the given


									providers

Methods:

public virtual void attach_clipboard (Clipboard clipboard)

public virtual void detach_clipboard (Clipboard clipboard)

public virtual bool get_value (ref Value value) throws Error

Gets the contents of this stored in value.

public virtual ContentFormats ref_formats ()

Gets the formats that the provider can provide its current contents in.

public virtual ContentFormats ref_storable_formats ()

Gets the formats that the provider suggests other applications to store the data in.

public virtual async bool write_mime_type_async (string mime_type, OutputStream stream, int io_priority, Cancellable? cancellable) throws Error

Asynchronously writes the contents of this to stream in the given mime_type.

Signals:

public virtual signal void content_changed ()

Emitted whenever the content provided by this provider has changed.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

@get
@new
@ref
@set
add_toggle_ref
add_weak_pointer
bind_property
connect
constructed
disconnect
dispose
dup_data
dup_qdata
force_floating
freeze_notify
get_class
get_data

get_property
get_qdata
get_type
getv
interface_find_property
interface_install_property
interface_list_properties
is_floating
new_valist
new_with_properties
newv
notify
notify_property
ref_count
ref_sink
remove_toggle_ref
remove_weak_pointer

replace_data
replace_qdata
set_data
set_data_full
set_property
set_qdata
set_qdata_full
set_valist
setv
steal_data
steal_qdata
thaw_notify
unref
watch_closure
weak_ref
weak_unref

ContentProvider