Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <50207@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 9 Jun 91 03:37:48 GMT References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1308@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Jun7.064750.5770@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> <4222.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 25 In article <4222.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: > Say, isn't it a little odd to have a flash clipboard when you don't > have solid multitasking? What are you clipping between? You're clipping between two programs that are loaded into memory at the same time, and if they are cooperative, act as if they are running at the same time. > The way I understood it, the Mac creates little files someplace > in much the same way that saving brushes out of DPaint does - then > the other application can choose to look in whatever passes for the > directory containing these brushes, and choose one. The clipboard holds basically one "thing" at a time. It is a system resource and programs simply grab the "thing" when the user selects the Paste function. > Does it do the equivalent of Snap's operation where you clip the > text from point A using the mouse, then hit a key to insert it into > point B? Almost every Mac program that works with data supports copy and paste. These commands are under the Edit menu of nearly every program I use (minus games and a few others.) You simply select the text, bitmap, or draw object in your document, select Copy from the Edit menu, switch tasks, and select Paste from the Edit menu. If the program supports that data type, it is transferred.