On Jan 26, 2008 10:46 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 2:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D Foy) wrote: > > [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see > > the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] > > > > In article > > <012120080315.17779.47940E4B0005B0340000457322007507440B0B9A0300979D9D0E > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a module that will let one manipulate a Mac OS X pasteboard? > > > There > > > does not seem to be anything on CPAN that strikes me as being for that > > > purpose. > > > > I'd like to have such a thing, although you should call it > > Mac::Clipboard :) > > I dithered about this. The arguments as I see them are: > > For Mac::Clipboard > > 1) That's what most people call the thing. > > For Mac::Pasteboard > > 1) It's what the Apple documentation calls it. > > 2) There's a lot more to it than (e.g.) Win32::Clipboard. For one > thing, there's more than one of them -- in fact, as many as you like. > Each can have multiple data items, with data in multiple flavors. snip
Why choose? Write Mac::Pasteboard with all of the bells and whistles and then write Mac::Clipboard using Mac::Pasteboard to expose only the clipboard. In the SEE ALSO section you can reference Mac::Pasteboard and people who need the advanced functionality can find it.
