On 03.01.2011, at 18:59, Chris Cunnington wrote:

> http://www.smalltalktelevision.com/cutpaste.png
> 
> It seems children using the OLPC understand this better than I do: cutting & pasting an image to/from Etoys/Sophie.
> 
> Pressing Command+Control+Shift+3 I put an image of the desktop in the clipboard. I can't see any other way to put an image in the clipboard.

Get any image editing or previewing app and press Cmd-C.

Or ctrl-click an image in Safari and "copy image".

Etc.

> Then it can be pasted into MSN Word or Sophie with a Menu drop down menu saying Paste.
> 
> Apple doesn't allow anything but text to be cut/paste'd, it seems to me.

Dead wrong.

> Etoys has the Menu selections Cut/Copy/Paste, but I can't see how to select something or into what I'd put my desktop snapshot.

Just press Cmd-V. Etoys doesn't support the Mac menu bar (yet).

You can also copy out of Etoys - bring up the halo for an object and press Cmd-C. Then press Cmd-V in, say, your email program:

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The only real problem with the extended clipboard plugin, as I wrote previously, is that there is no notion of "the most recent copy". When pasting, you want to paste the thing that was copied last. But we have several clipboards to choose from that are all independent and not timestamped. E.g. when I pasted the car into Etoys I'd expect it to paste the object with all its scripts, and not just a bitmap. Yet the latter is what happens currently because we find the bitmap that we put into the system clipboard ourselves, but don't know we did.

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