[squeak-dev] Extended Clipboard

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Jan 17 19:46:54 UTC 2011


On 17.01.2011, at 20:18, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>  
>>>> Ah, I misremembered. Neither RTF nor TIFF reading is implemented. On Unix we get text/html as rich-text format, and that works. Now I remember something about a RichText Squeak reader somewhere, but can't place it ...
>>>> 
>>>> Bitmap pasting works only if the format is PNG or JPG, which a lot of apps produce, but not all, apparently. For screenshots I use shift-control-command-4 which puts a PNG into the clipboard and that can be pasted fine.
>>>> 
>>>> HTH,
>>>> 
>>>> - Bert       
>>> Everything makes sense now. Thank you.
>>> 
>>> It seems that Grab, Preview, Safari, Firefox and Chrome export only TIFF to clipboard. I'm working on that. I hope to have news soon.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>    
>> 
>> Great! However, Safari works fine for me. E.g. I go to
>> 
>> 	http://squeakland.org/showcase/
>> 
>> then right-click on the girl holding the star, choose "Copy Image", switch to Etoys, Cmd-V, and get the image pasted fine ...
>> 
>> Possibly I changed the default format on my Mac at some point in the distant past? Hmm. But others are reporting it works for them ...
>> 
>> - Bert -
>>  
> 
> Not here. I get TIFF. Googled a bit, searched into preferences, could not find a way to modify that. It could be a Safari issue, or most likely an OS X issue, as the same happens to me in Firefox and Chrome. FWIW, I'm using Safari 5.0.3 (5533.19.4) on OS X 10.5.8.

I'm on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.6) and there the format is PNG.

> Anyway, the TIFF reader is working here and solves the issue for good. Now I just need to get permission to publish it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich

Great! :)

- Bert -





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