[iyonix-support] Re: Clipboard
- From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:37:12 +0100 (BST)
On Thu 19 Apr, Steve Fryatt wrote:
>
> On 19 Apr, Richard Mellish wrote in message
> <200704190413_MC3-1-E0FB-D144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I ought to have asked this several years ago, but ....
> >
> > The help file for the Clipboard utility and the IcnClipBrd module says
> > that these "have been converted to 32-bit for use on RISC OS 5". This
> > implies that the global clipboard itself is available for RISC OS5,
>
> The global clipboard has been provided since RISC OS 3.1.
>
> > but I recall seeing somewhere that this was one of the facilities
> > provided in the various versions of Select and Adjust but not on RISC
> > OS 5.
>
> The provision for the global clipboard in writable icons (ie. making
> IcnClipBrd redundant) and support for a clip holder (allowing the contents
> of the clipboard to persist after the owning application has quit) are
> RISC OS Select/Adjust additions. Both more or less duplicate existing
> functionality as part of the OS (from IcnClipBrd and -- IIRC -- ClipMan
> respectively).
The Select version of !Edit supports the global clipboard a feature I found
invalueble and one of the reasons I don't use one of our Iyonix PCs here!
I do still load IcnClipBrd here onto (adjust & RO6 preview) as there are
some things that it does that are not built into the OS I can't recall
exactly what it is of hand!
> > Is a global clipboard available, and if so where is it to be found?
>
> In the OS. :-)
>
> > Or is this something that has to be specifically supported by each
> > application, and if so is there a list anywhere of which applications do
> > support it?
>
> It's just a protocol (an extension of the better-known drag-and-drop
> system, in fact) which applications can use. When you cut an object in a
> compliant application, it holds on to it and offers it around the system
> to any other apps that need to paste objects into their own documents.
>
> What supports it? IcnClipBrd, Ovation Pro, Easi/TechWriter, Zap,
> StrongEd, NetSurf, Oregano2, Messenger Pro, and probably much more (that's
> just a list of things off the top of my head).
>
Chris Evans
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