Re: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

[Bart Lateur]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:04:13 +0000, Alan Fry wrote:

>>I don't think Bart has misunderstood the problem at all.
>
>With the greatest respect I think you have both misunderstood what I 
>was driving at.
>
>>Take the first four characters, which indicate the type.
>
>That IS the problem. Those four merry little characters (which may be 
>'TEXT' or 'styl' or any number of things) are buried contiguously in 
>a mush of all sorts of other unrelated stuff. The problem is how to 
>pick them out of the mush.

I think that that "mush" itself is stored in some kind of tree. The key
to traversing this tree should be some length words/longs, indicating
how long the individual parts are. I expect it to be not to different
from how JPEG and/or TIFF files are stored. Or, more close to home: I
expect that the structure of the clipboard is very closely related to
the structure of a file's resource fork.

-- 
        Bart.