Copying objects to the clipboard

[Bob Sneidar]

Hey! Looks like I crashed it! I took a screen shot of a window on my mac, clicked Show Keys, then chose Unicode. THAT is why they call me the Bugmeister!!! ;-)

Bob


On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Thanks Stephen, not too late at all.
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:49 PM, stephen barncard <
> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Peter -- I hope this isn't too late -
>> 
>> I made this stack to examine all elements of what's in the clipboard at any
>> moment ---
>> 
>> go URL "http://fulton.barncard.com/stax/clipboardTest.rev"
>> 
>> there are likely a possible few font bugs, but I've tested it pretty well.
>> 
>> Just remember it won't work properly without being saved somewhere, and the
>> included font is installed alongside.
>> Save the stack then reload, you'll get a dialog asking permission to
>> install the font.
>> The font allows the showing of all the codes represented in the hex
>> listing. You'll see what I mean when you press the "show all chars" button.
>> 
>> Just copy whatever into the clipboard, including sound clips, images, or
>> text. Don't paste it, but just hit the "show keys" button.
>> 
>> the small scroller on the left shows the keys to the clipped data, choose
>> one and the data will be displayed.
>> 
>> the popup at the bottom chooses how displayed, I usually use HEX
>> 
>> the small field below shows the number of bytes
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> After copying an object to the clipboard, the clipboard data type is
>>> "objects".  Is there a way to determine what type of object or do I have
>> to
>>> keep track of that myself?
>>> 
>>> This is in connection with a copy/paste and figuring if a paste is valid
>> or
>>> not, e.g. pasting a substack to a card would be invalid.
>>> 
>>> Pete
>>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen Barncard
>> San Francisco Ca. USA
>> 
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