'''clipboard append''' ''?-'''''displayof''''' window? ?-'''''format''''' format? ?-'''''type''''' type? ?- -? data'' Appends ''data'' to the clipboard on ''window'' 's display in the form given by ''type'' with the representation given by ''format'' and claims ownership of the clipboard on ''window'' 's display. ''Type'' specifies the form in which the selection is to be returned (the desired "target" for conversion, in [ICCCM] terminology), and should be an atom name such as STRING or FILE_NAME; see the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual for complete details. ''Type'' defaults to STRING. The''format'' argument specifies the representation that should be used to transmit the selection to the requester (the second column of Table 2 of the [ICCCM]), and defaults to STRING. If ''format'' is STRING, the selection is transmitted as 8-bit ASCII characters. If ''format'' is ATOM, then the ''data'' is divided into fields separated by white space; each field is converted to its atom value, and the 32-bit atom value is transmitted instead of the atom name. For any other ''format'', ''data'' is divided into fields separated by white space and each field is converted to a 32-bit integer; an array of integers is transmitted to the selection requester. Note that strings passed to '''clipboard append''' are concatenated before conversion, so the caller must take care to ensure appropriate spacing across string boundaries. All items appended to the clipboard with the same ''type'' must have the same ''format''. The ''format'' argument is needed only for compatibility with clipboard requesters that don't use Tk. If the Tk toolkit is being used to retrieve the CLIPBOARD selection then the value is converted back to a string at the requesting end, so ''format'' is irrelevant. A - - argument may be specified to mark the end of options: the next argument will always be used as ''data''. This feature may be convenient if, for example, ''data'' starts with a -. ---- See also: * [clipboard] ---- [Tk syntax help] - [Category Command]