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From: defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Looking for a cut/paste procedure
Message-ID: <950048@hpclapd.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jan 91 18:00:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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I have been playing around  with my mouse  and I have  gotten a mouse  unit
that let's me track mouse events and the  like.  What I'm  trying to do now
is  implement a  cut and paste  procedure  so  that  a button  1  drag will
highlight text on the screen and place the text into  a cut buffer.  Button
2 will paste any  text.  This is  turning out  to be  difficult and I would
appreciate any help that I can get.

One of the problems that I have is that there can  be up to 2000 characters
cut and  TP only likes strings  < 256  characters.  Another problem is that
currently my highlight and cut procedure isn't smart enough to  be  able to
cut only  what  is highlighted and   tends  to  cut  the  same character(s)
multiple times.  I know that given more time, debugging  and coding I could
work through it but I would appreciate any  pointers (and/or code)  to help
me complete this task.

Thanks in advance.