Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 17.01.2011, at 17:32, Juan Vuletich wrote:
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>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>> On 30.12.2010, at 18:31, John M McIntosh wrote:
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>>>> 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. 
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>>>> I put the image & changes at 
>>>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental
>>>>
>>>> pharo.extendedClipboard.2.zip
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>>>>
>>>> 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
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>>> 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).
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>>> 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 ...
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>>> - Bert -
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>> Hi Bert,
>>
>> I installed Etoys 4.1 on my Mac mini with Mac OS X 10.5.8. I was neither able to copy nor paste RTF from to Etoys. I tried both with AbiWord and TextEdit, and all I get is a String (without font styles, alignment or color). I also tried to paste a graphic (created with the Grab app) and I also failed (I get the previous String clipboard).
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>> In the first case, ExtendedClipboardInterface current readAvailableFormats answered an OrderedCollection(text/rtf text/utf8-unicode text/plain text/unicode), in the second case it answered an OrderedCollection(image/tiff).
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>> Besides, #readRTFClipboardData and #readTIFFClipboardData have no senders.
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>> What am I doing wrong?
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>> Thanks,
>> Juan Vuletich
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> 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 ...
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> 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.
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> 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