Quicktime is used on the macintosh to translate TIFF to squeak Forms & back. Since that is the preferred graphic on the clipboard on the mac. Windows comes along for the ride which then makes PNG translation much faster since it's done in by C libraries versus smalltlak code.
On 14-Jul-09, at 12:10 AM, Michael Rueger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:15 AM, John M > McIntosh<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > Hmm, I don't think the clipboard code needs Quicktime on Windows. > > I would rather vote for doing this in a plugin, extending on the > Enhanced/ExtendedClipboard plugin. > > Michael -- = = = ======================================================================== 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
