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. > > -- > = > = > = > = > = > ====================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: > squeaker68882 > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http:// > www.smalltalkconsulting.com > = > = > = > = > = > ====================================================================== > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
