On Jan 21, 9:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claes Jakobsson) wrote: > Hi, Hi. My apologies for taking so long to get back to you. After fiddling with going through my ISP and not having anything show up in the newsgroup (the original post was mailed to macosx@perl.org), I decided to try Google Groups.
> I assume with pasteboard you mean the clipboard? Well, I include the clipboard, which isn't quite the same thing. Mac OS X allows multiple pasteboards, one of which is the system clipboard (a.k.a. 'com.apple.pasteboard.clipboard'). You can create your own, which go away when the last accessor does. Each pasteboard can contain multiple items, and each item multiple "flavors" (Apple's technical term) of data. Yes, I expect most users to be popping text on and off the system clipboard, but there's more to it than that. > There seems to be an attempt of a generic cliboard interface on CPAN > (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Clipboard/ > ) which according to the readme says it works on OS X. I suppose it > just uses the 'pbcopy' and 'pbpaste' command line tools. > Yes, it just shells out to pbcopy and pbpaste, which means you can only access plain text -- specifically, flavor 'com.apple.traditional- mac-plain-text'. I was planning to access any flavor of data, though the only testing I have done other than with text is to copy a graphic to the clipboard with Graphic Converter, pull it back off with my code, open the output file, and see if it looked like the same picture. Tom Wyant
