[openbeos] Re: Clipboard format standards for video and audio

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:08:21 +0200 CEST

> [Cross-posted from interface kit list]
> Everyone,
> 
> I am currently working on a section of the human interface guidelines 
> concerning how to use the system clipboard and some standardized ways 
> of passing data from one application to another. While there are 
> established standards for image and text data, there isn't anything 
> that I know of for audio and video. How should audio and video be 
> stored? Then again, *should* it be possible to pass video via the 
> clipboard? Thoughts?
> 

A/V data can grow big quite fast, but nothing stops you from making a 
temp file and passing a ref instead in the BMessage.

François.

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