But what are the rules and conventions? Why would Finder put the icon in the
pasteboard on the assumption that is what the user wants, but TextEdit would
paste in the actual file on the assumption that is what the user wants? It
seems schizophrenic. I just want a list of rules of how to use the Pasteboard
in a way that conforms to what users expect. If I start ignoring the TIFF part
of the pasteboard in favor of the URL on the assumption that is what the user
wants, why is the tiff there anyway? And will that get me into trouble in other
cases?
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From: Jens Alfke <[email protected]>
To: Chris Idou <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyle Sluder <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 20 November, 2009 12:29:51 PM
Subject: Re: tiffs on pasteboard
On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Chris Idou wrote:
> But I'm still confused about one thing: If copying from Finder actually
> copies the file icon, and not the actual tiff, how come it pastes ok into
> TextEdit?
The Finder also puts the location of the file on the pasteboard, and I believe
TextEdit sees that, recognizes that it's an image file, and reads the file into
an image. You can do the same fairly easily.
—Jens
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