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From: steele@Apple.COM (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit Clipboard Format?
Message-ID: <12105@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 88 19:24:15 GMT
References: <4717@husc6.harvard.edu> <3111@polyslo.UUCP> <351@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: steele@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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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.

This is exactly right, for single resources.  If multiple resources are
cut or copied, they're placed in the temporary file 'Resedit.scrap' in the
same folder as ResEdit, whether they're the same type as each other or
not; if you copy multiple resources, leave ResEdit, and relaunch, they
won't be there any more.  If multiple resources are in the scrap and you
paste into a file in ResEdit, it's only the first resource that gets
pasted.  The Scrapbook lists resource types in alphabetical order, not by
saved order, so this is hard to see.

Other notes:  Pastes do not check to see whether you're going to replace
an existing resource file, and "Y", "N", and "C" now work, MPW-fashion,
in response to the dialogs.

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 Oliver Steele						steele@apple.com
 Apple ATG

 Disclaimer:  I don't know anyone who works on ResEdit.  I just tried it.