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 -