[Passwordsafe-devel] Re: Passwordsafe-devel digest, Vol 1 #53 - 2 msgs

[Steve L. <st...@is...>]

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. RE: Some things I'd like to have in pwSafe (Rony Shapiro)
>    2. RE: Some things I'd like to have in pwSafe (gregg conklin)
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> From: "Rony Shapiro" <ro...@gm...>
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> Cc: "PasswordSafe Developers" <pas...@li...>
> Subject: RE: [Passwordsafe-devel] Some things I'd like to have in pwSafe
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:54:08 +0200
> 
> Hi Stanislav,
> 
> Thanks for your kind words - we're glad that you find PasswordSafe cool &
> useful.
> 
> As to your requests:
> 
> 1. I think this is already available - try Manage->Options... Password
> Policy and see if that provides what you want.
> 
> 2. This is a bit difficult, since there's no way to know (I think) when
> you've pasted outside the passwordsafe application. The closes thing
> currently avialable is in Manage->Options... Security, an option to clear
> the clipboard when minimizing passwordsafe.


There may a very convoluted way to do it. The trick is instead of 
posting the data to the clipboard, passwordsafe would post the promise 
to post the data to the clipboard. This is usally done when posting 
large quantities of data (like when you copy files in explorer, big 
spreadsheets, etc). If you post a format with a NULL vlau,e you get a 
WM_RENDERFORMAT call when it is time for you to actually render the 
format, i.e. at paste time.

Look up 'Clipboard Delayed Rendering' in MSDN for info.


This only solves half the problem: it lets the app know when the data is 
about to be pasted, not when it is actually pasted. Maybe you just give 
it 30 seconds and then clear the clipboard if it still contains your ddata.


> 
> 3. Personally, I'm running Windows 2000. Perhaps another developer would
> like to implement this feature? Of course, if you can write code or if you
> have a friend who does, you're welcome to do so and contribute!  The system
> tray feature is on our list of requests - we'll get to it, eventually.

3 is easy, you just add a manifest file to the resource. If/when I ever 
get to making changes to passsafe I can do it.