Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!sics.se!sics!dagr From: dagr@nmpcad.se (Dag Rende) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: DA's, copying, and MultiFinder Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 13:15:11 GMT References: <1991Mar20.144345.178@otago.ac.nz> Sender: news@sics.se Organization: nmp Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: michael@otago.ac.nz's message of 20 Mar 91 03:21:10 GMT This problem is the same for "small applications". I wrote an application for converting postscript pictures transferred from a Dec workstation to a PICT on the scrap. After many tries and readings of Insides ad TNs, i had to implement the Edit-Copy command to get multifinder let the other application (Word in this case) be able to see the PICT on it's scrap. I intended to write a couple of easy-to-use "scrap transformers". They would let the user of ANY word processor, program editor etc. make simple but time saving transformations on a part of his text. He marks the text, performs Copy or Cut, runs the DA or little application, and I am sorry to say that I don't have a solution to this. Transformations like line sorting, up/down-casing, pretty printing of C-functions, extraction of ANSI C prototypes, character translations, ascii-arithmetic etc. would be useful. But why should the user have to first start the DA or application, chose transformation, do Copy, and then quit? I am looking forward to a solution. Dag Rende Institute of Microelectronics, Stockholm, Sweden