Current state: I have a tray icon, two context menus - one for about/options/exit/etc. on right-click and one on left-click for clipboard management.
One thing I'm not sure of is how to sync clipboard contents - I grasped how to read and write data from/to clipboard, but I don't know how to detect changes(or should I check periodically?).
How would you do this?
Anyone please correct me if I am wrong but as far as I think the only way to implement is polling.
I also tried looking at the source code one of the famous clipboard manager http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/.
I found this peace of code in that.
/* Add the daemon loop */
timeout_id = g_timeout_add_full(G_PRIORITY_LOW,
DAEMON_INTERVAL,
(GSourceFunc)daemon_check,
NULL,
(GDestroyNotify)reset_daemon);
And in the header file, DAEMON_INTERVAL is defined as 500. So, it checks after every 500 milliseconds.