Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!uva!freek
From: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit Clipboard Format?
Message-ID: <334@uva.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 20:32:17 GMT
References: <4717@husc6.harvard.edu> <3111@polyslo.UUCP> <351@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <351@piring.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>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,

Unfortunately, your guess is wrong. The solution is that Resedit *doesn't*
copy and paste collections of resources using the scrap. If you leave Resedit
with a couple of resources on the clipboard, and you enter it again, only one
of the resources is still there, and name and ID are forgotten.

Resedit uses a file called ResEdit.Scrap to store collections of resources on
the "scrap". Try watching ResEdit under MultiFinder ...

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