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From: micja@IDA.LiU.SE (Michael Jansson)
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Subject: Re: Are applications using the Clipboard?
Keywords: IFF, CAT, FTXT, ILBM, Clipboard, Applications.
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.114706.6762@ida.liu.se>
Date: 19 Nov 90 11:47:06 GMT
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In article <2235@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In <1990Nov16.100909.29735@ida.liu.se>, micja@IDA.LiU.SE (Michael Jansson) writes:
>>THE QUESTION:
>>
>>   IS THERE NO APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORTS THE CLIPBOARD (PROPERLY)????
>
>Not many, if any at all.

That is what I suspect (big sigh!:-).
A lot of people have replied on my original query and have given me names
of applications that do use the clipboard. They are not many and they all
cut&paste text (No image pasting: big sigh again ;-). I might post a list
of them later (Interesting for other people that are working/testing
applications that uses the clipboard!?). 

>In my opinion, the seeming insistence on IFF data format has severely limited
>the number of people who are willing to use the clipboard.  

Yes, and it has to be that so that applications has a common 'language'.
I can not see how it could have done otherwise, given that the format of
the clip-data must be generic, i.e. usable for many different kinds of
data. It is a bit hard to handle IFF-files even if you do have an
iff-library.  Its one of those bad-but-necessary-things. Right!?

>Without an IFF
>library to call upon, or without a series of systems calls to handle it, 
>who is going to bother with writing their own IFF parsers into each program 
>just in case someone else writes one into theirs?
>Perhaps we will see more use of the clipboard now that 2.x has an
>iffparse.library. Would be nice.

Lets hope so!!

>
>-larry




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