From: johanengelen <johanengelen@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:21:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add method to lookup path object id from Clipboard
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cefba9d8790693bdedd233fb979a69fbe4208d6;p=inkscape.git

add method to lookup path object id from Clipboard
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diff --git a/src/ui/clipboard.cpp b/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
index 0f9223054..31a943365 100644
--- a/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/clipboard.cpp
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ public:
     virtual bool pasteSize(bool, bool, bool);
     virtual bool pastePathEffect();
     virtual Glib::ustring getPathParameter();
+    virtual Glib::ustring getPathObjectId();
     
     ClipboardManagerImpl();
     ~ClipboardManagerImpl();
@@ -437,6 +438,30 @@ Glib::ustring ClipboardManagerImpl::getPathParameter()
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * @brief Get path object id from the clipboard
+ * @return The retrieved path id string (contents of the id attribute), or "" if no path was found
+ */
+Glib::ustring ClipboardManagerImpl::getPathObjectId()
+{
+    SPDocument *tempdoc = _retrieveClipboard(); // any target will do here
+    if ( tempdoc == NULL ) {
+        _userWarn(SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP, _("Nothing on the clipboard."));
+        return "";
+    }
+    Inkscape::XML::Node
+        *root = sp_document_repr_root(tempdoc),
+        *path = sp_repr_lookup_name(root, "svg:path", -1); // unlimited search depth
+    if ( path == NULL ) {
+        _userWarn(SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP, _("Clipboard does not contain a path."));
+        sp_document_unref(tempdoc);
+        return "";
+    }
+    gchar const *svgd = path->attribute("id");
+    return svgd;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * @brief Iterate over a list of items and copy them to the clipboard.
  */
diff --git a/src/ui/clipboard.h b/src/ui/clipboard.h
index 6db6be715..bb214dbf7 100644
--- a/src/ui/clipboard.h
+++ b/src/ui/clipboard.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ public:
     virtual bool pasteSize(bool separately, bool apply_x, bool apply_y) = 0;
     virtual bool pastePathEffect() = 0;
     virtual Glib::ustring getPathParameter() = 0;
+    virtual Glib::ustring getPathObjectId() = 0;
     
     static ClipboardManager *get();
 protected: