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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacX 1.0.1 release: *copy* not explicitly supported
Summary: Why should a copy to the clipboard not be supported?
Keywords: MacX X-windows MacOS
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.025608.15296@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 28 Jun 90 02:56:08 GMT
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Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta
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My release copy of MacX arrived today.  I thought the copy menu item
was dimmed just for the beta copy I had originally set up and practised
with.  It turns out that copying text or images to the clipboard from
a window is not explicitly supported---even from a rootless (i.e. normal-
looking Mac) window.  Instead, one has to run a client to do the work,
while MacX monitors the activity and makes a local copy.
I know this is what I would expect under X, but, hell, we have a bitmap
displayed by MacX in a Macintosh window.  Why can't I copy it to the 
clipboard the usual way immediately so that I can paste it into a
document somewhere else ? The main reason why I use MacX is to get graphics
from applications which don't exist in the Mac world, and I would think
a large number of potential MacX users fall in the same category.
Is this something that we might see in a later version, maybe?
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