[Vm-dev] Extended Clipboard

[Eliot Miranda]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:05 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 11:40 AM Hilaire Fernandes <hfern at free.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to copy to the OS clipboard DrGeo sketch as SVG image.
>>
>> The clipboard in the image is only for text. I read about Extented
>> Clipboard (Mac OSX) plugin to manage other type of data. I was told the
>> plugin also existed for Linux at some time (when Sophie was developed). Is
>> it possible to retrieve it?
>>
>
> As John said it doesn't appear to exist for Linux.  But X11 has a
> clipboard and implementing the innards for X11 shouldn't be that
> difficult.  The only complication is that if one wants to do the job
> "properly" one has to extend the indirection scheme Ian Piumarta came up
> with so that it can work on the other graphical back-ends such as the raw
> frame buffer.  Hillaire, if you're interested in implementing the X11
> ExtendedClipboard internals I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
>
> Just a little bit about what I'm trying to do:
>
> We use the ClipboardExtendedPlugin to bring in data to Virtend, in
> particular images, filenames, and text.  I love to be able to paste
> Shout-styled text into email and currently that's difficult:
> 1. select some styled text
> 2. use the "copy as html" menu item
> 3. paste the HTML text into a file called 'foo.html'
> 4. open the file in a web browser
> 5. select the text in the web browser
>
> So I'm making sure that the plugin can paste multiple forms of text.
> Currently on Mac I have the following (a variation of which I just used to
> paste the following)
> [| text styledText htmlText |
> text *:=* (Text sourceCodeAt: #printHtmlString) asText.
> styledText *:=* SHTextStylerST80 new parseAMethod: true; styledTextFor:
> text.
> htmlText *:=* styledText printHtmlString.
>
>
> *"If one does only the addClipboardData:...dataFormat: 'public.html' then
> Safari pastes styled text correctly.Do both that and addClipboardData: ...
> dataFormat: 'public.text' and Safari pastes plain text.So the plugin is
> doing damage using declareTypes: every time. It needs to augment the
> types."*
> ExtendedClipboardInterface current
>     clearClipboard;
>     addClipboardData: '<meta charset="UTF-8">', htmlText asString
> dataFormat: 'public.html';
>     addClipboardData: (UTF8TextConverter new encodeString: text asString)
> dataFormat: 'public.utf8-plain-text'].
>
> So the Mac plugin primitives don't yet support being able to paste
> multiple alternatives in a series of invocations.  I could implement an
> interface that takes multiple alternatives in a single primitive
> invocation, but I think John's design intent is better; one should be able
> to use a sequence of invocations, each of which adds to the clipboard.  So
> I'm trying to get that to work right now.  I'm working on MacOS and Windows
> to make sure that things work there.  I'm not working on Linux cuz there's
> no there there yet ;-)
>

Ah, that was easy.  Use addTypes:owner: instead of declareTypes:owner: (in
the Mac Objective-C innards) and the Mac works.  Now Windows...

Thanks
>>
>> Hilaire
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>
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> best, Eliot
>


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