Top posted : Try using the pbcopy and pbpaste UNIX tools provided with Mac OS neXt or perhaps Open BSD,
You can "shell out" using a line like this $theclipboard = `pbpaste`; man pbcopy or man pbpaste in Terminal.app for more. At 21:54 -0700 5/9/10, Spencer Chase wrote: >sorry for posting to a bunch of lists, some of which i may not be >subscribed to. please write to me directly since i forget which lists >i am receiving. > >i have spent the entire day trying to figure out how to copy to the >system clipboard on the Mac OSX (darwin) non of the CPAN modules seems >to work for darwin. i have tried clipboard which is supposed to work >with most OSs but i get all sorts of errors that i have not been able >to resolve in hours and hours of attempts. i am just trying to use the >example code in the clipboard module which works fine for win32 but >nothing i can modify in the module gets it to work on Mac OSX. > >i have also tried mac pasteboard but there is not PPM for it and i >could not get it installed myself. > >anything else that might work? i am using TKx and need to copy from an >entry widget to other applications. no problems copying and pasting >with the app, it is the system clipboard that i need to copy to. > >-- Best regards, Spencer Chase mailto:spen...@spencerserolls.com >67550-Bell Springs Rd. >Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only. >Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only. >spen...@spencerserolls.com >http://www.spencerserolls.com >(707) 984-8356 >(707) 972-3149 -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--
