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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Scrap Management, User Preferences
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Date: 24 Apr 89 12:49:23 GMT
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I have a couple of questions, brought up by a recent project I've been
putting together:
(i)	Scrap Management. I've implemented CUT/COPY/PASTE/CLEAR (together
	with UNDO and REDO for all of these... it wasn't easy...). But,
	I'm only interested (for now) in cutting and pasting my own private
	kinds of objects. So, I've done it myself, with a couple of Handles
	for the clipboard and such like. Is there anything wrong with this?
	Why should I use the scrap manager for things which aren't TEXT or
	PICT, and therefore don't make sense for anybody else?
(ii)	User preferences: what's the official sanctioned way of saving user
	preferences in an application? A data file in the System Folder? A
	resource file? The data fork of the application? I personally prefer
	this last option, although it won't work on shared or protected
	volumes.

		Nick.


Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick
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