On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 27, 10:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas. Owens) wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008 10:46 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D Foy) wrote:
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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.
Interesting thought. The straightforward implementation would be to
have Mac::Clipboard depend on Mac::Pasteboard (since there's no
simplified clipboard interface that I have found). But it seems un-
parsimonious to me to use namespace for maybe a dozen lines of Perl,
[snip]
Maybe that's not a bad thing. And it wouldn't really limit the
potential of the namespace. Starting with your Mac::Clipboard (which
would inherit from Mac::Pasteboard) we might see:
Mac::Clipboard::Persistent - provide the ability to cache the
clipboard;
M::C::History - store clipboard values cumulatively with meta-data
(time-stamp, ...);
M::C::Multiple - provide multiple clipboards a la some GUI apps
M::C::Calculate - provide a stack for calculations with multiple
copied values
...
All of these would work in the "functionality-space" of "The
Clipboard", which isn't quite the same as accessing other features of
the Pasteboard, from the user's POV.
Regardless of the name, thanks for alerting me and others to the
interesting capabilities of the OS X Pasteboard.
Best,
- Bruce
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