Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!rpi!batcomputer!theory.tn.cornell.edu!finn From: finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Laziness Message-ID: <1991May10.151912.28006@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 10 May 91 15:19:12 GMT References: <660@rosie.NeXT.COM> <505@nwnexus.WA.COM> Sender: news@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu Organization: Cornell Theory Center Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: theory.tn.cornell.edu In article <505@nwnexus.WA.COM> adonis1@nwnexus.UUCP (Adonis Corporation (Doug Kent)) writes: > >The trouble is, once you've got the path out of the WorkSpace, you can't >do much with it. You should be able to stick it in the pasteboard >enabling you to paste it into other apps (such as Terminal). But for >some reason you can stick it into the pasteboard all night long and you'll >never be able to paste it back out into another app. I think there >is a bug somewhere in NextStep. Workspace is the only app which causes >the service to have this behaviour. Other apps interact just fine with >this services. > >Doug Kent >Independent NeXT Developer >adonis1@nwnexus.wa.com > Not so. The path goes in to the pasteboard type (I'm not at my next, so am going by memory here) NXFilenamePboardType. This is not generic ascii data, and an app that is asking for generic ascii data won't be able to get it, ie, you will not be able to paste it there. I've written a service (for compressing and uncompressing files) that takes stuff from the Workspace manager in this way all the time. You will also find that selected filenames from open and save panels are also of this type, and will not be available for random pasting in the same way filenames from the workspace manager are not.