Function

Gimpedit_named_copy_visible

Declaration [src]

gchar*
gimp_edit_named_copy_visible (
  GimpImage* image,
  const gchar* buffer_name
)

Description [src]

Copy from the projection into a named buffer.

This procedure works like gimp_edit_copy_visible(), but additionally stores the copied buffer into a named buffer that will stay available for later pasting, regardless of any intermediate copy or cut operations.

Available since:2.4

Parameters

image GimpImage
 

The image to copy from.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
buffer_name const gchar*
 

The name of the buffer to create.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Returns: gchar*
 
     The real name given to the buffer, or NULL if the copy failed.
     The returned value must be freed with g_free().
 The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.