Dear All, I don't know if I'm re-inventing the wheel here, so I thought I'd ask.
Is there a module that will let one manipulate a Mac OS X pasteboard? There does not seem to be anything on CPAN that strikes me as being for that purpose. I kind of expected something in Mac::Carbon to do the job, but if it's there I can't find it. Of course, I'm perfectly capable of not seeing my nose in front of my face ... I have been hacking around with a .xs module based on the Pasteboard interface. This means it requires at least Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). So my questions for the mailing list are: Have I re-invented the wheel? If so, where should I have looked that I didn't for this functionality? Is there any interest in publication of this module? Putting data on and taking data off the pasteboard appear to work now. I haven't looked into promised data at all, and can't promise to support it in the future. I also don't anticipate the module being smart enough to figure out the appropriate flavor for a given datum, or other "flavor-aware" functionality. Also, I haven't yet figured out where to put everything to support Module::Build, so it's ExtUtils::MakeMaker for now. It's an o-o interface, with an object representing a pasteboard. There are a couple convenience routines exported by default (should they be?) called pbcopy() and pbpaste(), which instantiate an object to access the system clipboard, access it, and then throw the object away. The flavor and synch flags would be exportable as constants. If I end up publishing, what name should I use? It appears that most Mac OS specific things have been dumped into the Mac:: name space, Dan Kogai's MacOSX::Files being the exception. The proposal was Mac::Pasteboard because that's the interface used (rather than the scrap manager). And a meta-question: what other information do I need to supply for people to be able to comment meaningfully? Thank you very much, Tom Wyant (mailing address to the contrary notwithstanding)
