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From: micja@IDA.LiU.SE (Michael Jansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are applications using the Clipboard?
Keywords: IFF, CAT, FTXT, ILBM, Clipboard, Applications.
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.113623.20837@ida.liu.se>
Date: 21 Nov 90 11:36:23 GMT
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In article <2250@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:

>I feel that given encouragement to include ASCII as an acceptable format for
>clip data, _many_ folks would have gone for it in their programs. With the
>clipboard in comon use, pressure on the programmers to utilize IFF for sound,
>graphics, and text containing special attributes would have come from the user
>community.
>
>But... it may be too late for this. More's the pity.
>
>-larry

Well, I am not quite sure that would have made much change. Clipping pure
text (no font-stuff etc) is not really that hard right now. It can be done in
the following lines of code (give or take a few lines ;-)

sprintf(data,"FORMxxxxFTXTCHRSxxxx%s",text);
((long *)data)[1] = strlen(text)+8;
((long *)data)[4] = strlen(text);
DoIO(clipreq);

It is even more easy to read such data. The really hard part is to handle
complex data such as pictures etc. There is definitely a need for a
iffparse.library to handle that.


- Michael

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