on 8/22/06 9:53 AM, Arnaud Nicolet at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Le 22 août 06 à 15:13 Soir, Jonathan Johnson a écrit:
> 
>> 
>> On Aug 22, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Maarten de Vries wrote:
>> 
>>> When I try to create a new clipboard object in a console app, RB
>>> tells me
>>> that there is no class with this name. I didn't spell it wrong, so
>>> could
>>> anyone confirm this? Or explain it. Cause it doesn't have anything
>>> to do
>>> with graphical stuff. It seems very normal to me for a consol
>>> application to
>>> acces the clipboard.
>> 
>> Console applications are meant to be able to run when no user is
>> logged in. Clipboards pertain to the current user, and also have no
>> life in the CLI world. Any attempt to access the Clipboard in a
>> console application when not logged in would result in a crash. So,
>> they are not accessible.
> 
> Is it not the Service Application instead which is used when no user
> is logged in?

On Windows most accounts used to run services can't have UI either although
they can be linked to UI libraries.  This isn't true on Mac OS X.

Chris


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