Subject: Re: sheppy's clipboard
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Fri, Jan 1, 1999 18Ç500
Message-id: <1dl0dr1.vtyzhlmzwq4gN@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>

Adalbert Goertz <adalbert.goertz@pikespeak.net> wrote:

> rrre:
> Okay, Sheppy's Clipboard (I have it myself, disabled) is an external
> clipboard that works just like the System's internal one.  The purpose
> >>
> Adalbert Goertz responds >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>
> Can you tell me how to use the internal clipboard?

Every time you use the Cut, Copy or Paste commands in the Edit menu of a
IIgs desktop application, you are using the system clipboard.  (In some
cases, an application may implement its own private clipboard that
behaves the same way, but the data cannot be exchanged with other
programs.)

It is just the logical place where the last item copied or cut is held.
It is usually in memory, but some programs cause it to be written out to
the system disk (as a "Clipboard" file in *:System:System.Setup, if I
remember right).

The clipboard doesn't have any user interface as such, but some programs
(including Finder) provide a "Show Clipboard" command so that you can
see what is on the clipboard.

There are also NDAs along the line of the Mac's "Scrapbook", which
provide a repository for holding multiple clipboard contents (pasting
into the scrapbook adds a new entry, and you can copy the displayed
entry to the clipboard for pasting into an application).

I don't quite understand how Sheppy's Clipboard works, since it
apparently works with programs that don't support the clipboard.

Beats me how you could get anything useful out of a program if it
doesn't have a copy command.  It could paste text by generating fake
keyboard events.

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David Empson
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