> 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,
since right now the "clipboard" part is on the order of
Given that Pasteboard offers a lot more functionality than just
pbcopy/pbpaste, I would have though Clipboard would similarly offer
all the functionality of Pasteboard, except only to the default
standard clipboard.
So where Mac::Pasteboard might have a function that returns the list
of flavors of the fifth item in the a specific pasteboard,
Mac::Clipboard would have a function that returns the list of flavors
of the fifth item, but only in the default system clipboard.
Obviously, you want some nice easy routines to extract the clipboard
flavours as text (getting the unicode text if possible, the plain
text if not), but you want that same functionality for all
Pasteboards as well as for the system clipboard, so you would again
have a function in Mac::Pasteboard that returns the text of the top
item of a specified pasteboard and a function in Mac::Clipboard that
returns the text of the top item in the system clipboard.
If Mac::Pasteboard is implemented in a functional manner, then you
could use "undef" as the pasteboard parameter to specify the system
pasteboard.
If Mac::Pasteboard is implemented in an OO manner, then
Mac::Clipboard would be essentially identical, except instead of a
factory function that takes a pasteboard name, it has just a factory
function that returns the Mac::Pasteboard object for the system
clipboard.
But regardless of the details, I think Mac::Clipboard would want to
be far more than just an interface equivalent of pbcopy/pbpaste.
Enjoy
Peter.
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