I've taken the liberty of renamin this thread, as it ultimately seems more related to enabling/disabling menu items (and hence their associated keyboard shortcuts) than the workings of the Clipboard itself. For thread-name purists, please forgive.
This issue is critical for all designers who want to make HIG-compliant apps, and in a way it's good news that Rev's IDE is adversely affected as it raises the visibility of the issue.
The challenge with updating menu items is making sure you trap all possible things that might affect them.
Some are easier than others. For example, if your interface allows the user to cut text, then you know that you should enable the Paste item when that happens.
But if the user has text on the Clipboard from another app, how does your app know without something horribly inefficient like polling?
It might be nice to have a clipboardChanged message -- would that be appropriate, or overkill?
What other changes or additions to the language might we see to simplify updating menu items?
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