ClipboardData Refresh

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Trevor Hopkins wrote:

> I have a Revolution stack designed to run in the system background  
> and to constantly check the clipboard for particular contents. The  
> problem I'm having is that the clipboardData variable only  
> refreshes when I bring the Revolution stack active (to the  
> "foreground"). Similarly, if I have an AppleScript running in the  
> background copy something to the clipboard while the Revolution  
> stack is active, the clipboardData does not refresh until I switch  
> out of the Revolution stack and then back to it again.Can anyone  
> point me in the right direction here? What is the deal with the  
> clipboardData?

Trevor,

I have a bug report filed on this issue and I know of no workaround  
using Rev itself.

<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3877>

I had to do the same thing in an application and had to resort to  
using an external that I call in the background which checks for  
changes to the system clipboard.

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
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