Method

GdkClipboardread_text_finish

Declaration [src]

char*
gdk_clipboard_read_text_finish (
  GdkClipboard* clipboard,
  GAsyncResult* result,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Finishes an asynchronous clipboard read.

See gdk_clipboard_read_text_async().

Parameters

result

Type: GAsyncResult

A GAsyncResult.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: char*

A new string.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The return value can be NULL.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.