John

I do not have the technical background to reply but pharo is interested.

On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:15 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> A couple of years ago the Sophie team built out the logic to enable
> the cut/copy/paste of a tremendous amount of clipboard data types in
> and out of Squeak.
>
> For the macintosh this include image data, data from selections made
> in the finder, and oh I don't know it seemed like 42 flavours of
> Textual data.
>
> it seems a shame to let that go all to waste and let Pharo languish
> with UTF-8. The problem has always been Oh EToys won't support FFI
> so progress on this front seems dim.
>
> However I'm wondering if there is any interested if I port the Sophie
> clipboard work to Pharo? Using FFI for the macintosh & Windows, where
> windows
> requires QuickTime for Window.
>
> Note the Sophie team decided because Quicktime for Window was a pre-
> requirement for iTunes that  well everyone has iTunes on windows  
> now...
>
> PS I note there are some hassles, Microsoft word for example sticks
> both the TIFF for the page, the UTF-16, UTF-8, ascii, macroman etc. on
> the the clipboard
> for a page. Very difficult to figure out what to do for that, in that
> case we knew the target was either image data, or text data, since we
> knew what the target was,
>  but for Pharo I"m not sure what the solution would be.
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