> On 30.12.2010, at 18:31, John M McIntosh wrote:
>
>> Since you are in there, and dragging the FFI stuff about you might
>> consider grabbing the clipboard stuff
>> so that we can copy/paste graphics on windows/mac to/from squeak?
>>
>> I took a run at it a year back but I'm afraid the Windows community just
>> couldn't care less so I couldn't get any
>> testers or confirmation  that it worked there.
>>
>> Today I'd suggest we just abandon them and let them sort it out later.
>>
>> I put the image & changes at
>>
>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental
>>
>> pharo.extendedClipboard.2.zip
>>
>>
>> For image read/writing it uses  SophieImageReadWriter which uses
>> Quicktime's api to translate any supported media types into bitmaps.
>> If that fails or is not available it just like SophieMovie grinds down a
>> decsion tree to find a supported Squeak plugin or smalltalk code to
>> decode the supplied mime-type.
>>
>>
>> PS ya, I see currentMIMETypes := SophieBookEditor clipboardMimeTypes.
>> but SophieBookEditor is not there and
>> ExtendedClipboardMacInterface>>copyImageDataFromClipboard   but is that
>> used? or did I replace it with ExternalClipboard
>
> We use the extended clipboard plugin in Etoys. Copying/pasting bitmaps or
> rich text between apps works nicely (on Mac and Unix anyway, Windows
> remains to be implemented).
>
> However, there is one major issue: When pasting, we have not found a way
> to determine which clipboard should take precedence - Squeak's text
> clipboard, Morphic's object clipboard, the system's string clipboard, or
> the extended Text/Bitmap/Etc. clipboard. In Sophie I guess you used the
> extended clipboard exclusively, but for Squeak it's not quite as clear-cut
> ...
>
> - Bert -

I'm interested on this and will most likely be able to help in January.
I'm currently on family holidays far from home, but will really pay
attention to this when back home in a few days.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich