Hello John,
On 06/03/13 17:30, John A. Wallace wrote:
[...]
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Michael Thayer
>> <michael.tha...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> The other is that the Windows XP clipboard viewer mechanism (actually
>>> it goes back to the co-operative multi-tasking Windows 3.1, which is
>>> the problem, as any unco-operative application can break it) is
>> rather
>>> unreliable
[...]
> I was looking for an old post about another topic when I came across this
> dialogue. I want to mention, IMO, that my experience with the Windows
> Clipboard viewer has not been dissatisfying. I really believe that you
> should not give a second thought concerning the capabilities of the
> Clipboard or the Clipbook viewer, Fernando. And, if you need a clipboard
> viewer on a Windows OS after XP, you could copy The Microsoft Windows NT
> Clipbook Viewer from XP to Windows 7 ("C:\Program Files (x86)\clipbrd.exe").
> I use it on 64-bit Win 7. Afterwards, just make a shortcut and, if you like,
> a hotkey combination to invoke it or pin it to the Start Menu. This viewer
> lets you see whatever is on the Windows Clipboard as text or image, lets you
> save these images to permanent files in clp format, which you can later open
> again with the viewer or several other apps, and it lets you clear the
> contents of the clipboard immediately to free up memory.
[...]
I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. Microsoft has two
things with it calls the Clipboard Viewer - one is the application you
are talking about, the other is an internal Windows mechanism which
allows applications to monitor the clipboard for changes. It is the
second of these which is unreliable by design, since it was implemented
in and not changed since Windows 3 which was built around the idea of
applications co-operating with each other: even in Windows XP and later
any unco-operative application can put the mechanism out of action.
Regards,
Michael
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