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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit Clipboard Format?
Message-ID: <351@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 8 Jun 88 09:28:06 GMT
References: <4717@husc6.harvard.edu> <3111@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae
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In article <3111@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>  It is my understanding that the format of the data on the Clipboard is
>just the same as the resource that was copied.  So if you were to copy a
>"BNDL", ResEdit would put a resource of type "BNDL" on the clipboard.  Now
>most applications don't support "BNDL" data types, so they don't allow you
>to "import" them.

It's your guess against mine, but I don't believe you.  First, ResEdit
can copy and paste a collection of resources, so it must have a way of
storing many resources in a single scrap entry.  Second, to get anything
from the clipboard (without cheating) you must pass a type (a
four-letter word) to GetScrap.  My guess is that ResEdit uses its own
type, and undoubtedly someone with a debugger can peek into the scrap
mgr's administration to see what that type is.  From then on,
decyphering the information that's there should be simple enough.  (You
might also have a look at the ScrapBook file, if that's still
supported).  Good luck!
--
Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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