Bibdesk also drags archived items, mainly for internal purposes, such as
copying items from one window to another. We declare the item with a
private pasteboard type. Tinderbox should just ignore it. They should only
accept text items. That is how pasteboards are supposed to work. For
instance if you drag an image, an app should not try to interpret this as
text.
Christiaan
Op 7 aug. 2017 20:35 schreef "Grant Lotter" <lot...@member.ams.org>:
> I have a question regarding BibDesk's export of RIS data by dragging.
>
> Tinderbox, from Eastgate Systems, is capable of accepting RIS export drags
> from BibDesk: dragging in a RIS description from BibDesk to Tinderbox
> results in a nicely formatted note being created in Tinderbox with all of
> the metadata of the reference automatically filled in.
>
> Recently I noticed a problem where, in addition to a new reference note
> being created, an additional spurious note labelled `new' was also being
> created. I reported this and Tinderbox's creator Mark Bernstein isolated
> the problem as follows:
>
> Returning to BibDesk, this program places two items on the pasteboard when
>> dragging references. The first item contains the RIS of all of the
>> references in the drag; the second contains no text and its purpose is
>> obscure to me.
>> If anyone can find the explanation in the BibDesk documentation, that
>> might be useful.
>
>
> Is this second note on the pasteboard there for a reason?
>
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