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From: kent@sunfs2.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7.0 question
Summary: Can't `edit' a live paste.
Message-ID: <422@sunfs2.camex.uucp>
Date: 19 Jun 89 16:09:51 GMT
References: <964@cnetlu.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@sunfs2.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <964@cnetlu.UUCP> ranson@cnetlu.UUCP (Ranson) writes:
>
>How does Apple see the interaction between dynamic cut&paste and undo?
>Imagine I have a graph hot-pasted from a server file in my letter. I
>then delete a paragraph. I can always undo delete if I made a mistake.

The problem is worse then just undo.  What if you subscribe (what
Apple is calling the "paste" half of "live copy/paste"--"publish' is
the name for the first half of the procedure) to some text and then go
in and change the spelling of one of the words?  What happens if the
publisher then updates the published file?

The answer is that you will not be able to `edit' a subscribed
section, you can only `adorn' it.  The difference is that it must be
something that the computer will be able to do again for you whenever
the published file changes.  You could change the point size or
justification of text because they could be done again for you
automatically.  You could change the scale or maybe the color of a
graphic.  You might be able to change the font in only the third
paragraph, but that could break if the publication were changed to be
only two paragraphs long.  

The exact details of what you can do with a subscribed section will
differ from program to program but the common denominator will be that
they will be changes which have meaning which is separable from the
details of what the raw data might be.

Kent Borg
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