The original code, change sets, sunits too. are in 
platforms/Mac OS/plugins/ClipboardExtended

At some point the unix code *appeared*

The pharo.extendedClipboard.2.zip is about the 4th rewrite to tackle getting stuff from the clipboard. I note it uses FFI with windows and cheerfully allows 
copy/paste of "Graphics" thingees on that platform. 

On os-x it is a bit more complicated since microsoft office for example when you copy text data from a page it:
puts the text there as utf8, utf16, rtf, wordsomething, TIFF! (maybe jpeg too).     

In this case we actually see textual data and a screen shot of the page! But what to do?  In Sophie how we solved that was that we knew what the target 
paste entity was, so we just decided if you were pasting into a graphics target then it was a graphics object, or if into a blank area it was graphics.  However
if it was a text area, then you wanted the text object.

Other issues like if you select a file and copy via the finder that results in a text object, (the file name),  graphic (the icon), and a URI & other constructs to indicate it's a file object...  MMm that was a bit tricky and we decided likely you wanted to paste the contents of the file. 

On 2010-12-31, at 6:51 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> On 12/31/2010 2:34 PM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
>> it is (was) a changeset inside unix source structure... it is integrated to VMMaker since 207.
> 
> Thanks. But oh boy. This is the kind of code that makes me want to just break down and cry. Not a single comment. Not a single test. Not even indented.
> 
> But enough of that. What exactly does "creating" a clipboard mean? Opening the system default clipboard (then why is this called "creating" a clipboard? and why is it necessary at all?) or really creating a new, private clipboard (then where is the appropriate close/destroy method? and why would we want to create a private clipboard - shouldn't we be using the system default one to allow interactions with other apps?). And what are the format strings supposed to be? Mime types?
> 
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
> 
>> El 31/12/2010, a las 10:15a.m., Andreas Raab escribió:
>> 
>>> On 12/31/2010 12:32 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> 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).
>>> 
>>> So where *is* that plugin? I've only pointed this out three times in the past, but I can't seem to find any source code regarding this mythical plugin. There is nothing in VMMaker, there is nothing in squeakvm.org, so where is it?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>>  - Andreas
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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