Thanks for the info, but what about my questions? a) What does 
"creating" a clipboard mean and b) what are the format strings?

Thanks,
   - Andreas

On 12/31/2010 7:02 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> The original code, change sets, sunits too. are in
> platforms/Mac OS/plugins/ClipboardExtended
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> At some point the unix code *appeared*
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> 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.
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> On 2010-12-31, at 6:51 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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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