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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Can we salvage the clipboard?
Message-ID: <8886@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 11 Jun 90 11:41:19 GMT
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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Has anyone out there actually tried to program the clipboard??

I wrote the copy stuff, chacked all my variables, and the text string
before it went in and everything. All looked fine.

Then I tried to find a bug free program that could show me what was in 
there. _Bug free_!! I must have been out of my mind!!!

Notepad: This must be close to the slowest implementation of a clip
board in the world. Pasting text is like swimming in treacle. It 
always chokes on text >5000 characters, and gives up. Curiously, in
a different place each time. I suspect it is trying to read the text
a buffer-full at a time, and looses track of where it was up to in
the clipped document.

Snap: Probably worse. Seems to use a static buffer for text of about
250 chars. Once that is full, no dice. 

I ended up writing my own viewer. Just a little function to spew the 
contents out into the current cli. The clip was in there ok, and the
copy and paste functions are reasonably fast. It just looks like there
is almost no support for the clipboard in the world-at-large.

I would like 2 things if someone could email them, please.

1) The latest version of the C= cbio.c functions (in case the ones I
am using are a little infested.

2) The latest source to snap, and I'll add dynamic memory allocation
so we can snap any amount of text (which I can send in return, if desired).

An suggestions for salvaging the clipboard???

Regards Alan