A couple of years ago the Sophie team built out the logic to enable
the cut/copy/paste of a tremendous amount of clipboard data types in
and out of Squeak.
For the macintosh this include image data, data from selections made
in the finder, and oh I don't know it seemed like 42 flavours of
Textual data.
it seems a shame to let that go all to waste and let Pharo languish
with UTF-8. The problem has always been Oh EToys won't support FFI
so progress on this front seems dim.
However I'm wondering if there is any interested if I port the Sophie
clipboard work to Pharo? Using FFI for the macintosh & Windows, where
windows
requires QuickTime for Window.
Note the Sophie team decided because Quicktime for Window was a pre-
requirement for iTunes that well everyone has iTunes on windows now...
PS I note there are some hassles, Microsoft word for example sticks
both the TIFF for the page, the UTF-16, UTF-8, ascii, macroman etc. on
the the clipboard
for a page. Very difficult to figure out what to do for that, in that
case we knew the target was either image data, or text data, since we
knew what the target was,
but for Pharo I"m not sure what the solution would be.
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