[interfacekit] Re: Status Updates
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: interfacekit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:41:36 +0100 CET
Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Though I'm fortunately not assigned to any task in IK context, I've
> though
> about implementing a little workaround for a problem with BClipboard
> and
> large amounts of data. Currently the clipboard data are sent through
> ports,
> which, due to a port message size limit, causes the clipboard to
> cease to
> work for data sizes of 2 MB (on R5) and more (easily reproducable
> when
> copying a large region in ShowImage).
>
> My idea to solve this problem is to pass data larger than, say, 64 KB
> through an area (and leave it like that in the registrar). I'm
> currently
> stuffed with work; so, if someone else wants to implement that, I
> wouldn't
> mind to hand it over.
I wouldn't spend too much work on that right now, at least don't care
about all the tiny details - I think this will be made easier in
OpenBeOS sooner or later (because of a more advanced VM API).
Bye,
Axel.
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