[B2-devel] TESyncScrap (Thoughts on SheepShaver and Basilisk II)

[Josh J. <jj...@gm...>]

On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Lew Irwin/Studio Briefing wrote:

> I do not use the latest version of SheepShaver because of the  
> difficulty of
> transferring text to and from OS X, and even with the "official"  
> version
> that I am using now I have to transfer to Simple Text in OS 9  
> before I can
> paste into OS X.

I wrote a system extension called TESyncScrap that might help.  Prior  
to Carbon, standard behavior for Mac apps was to wait until a layer  
switch (i.e. bringing another application forward) to synchronize the  
clipboard.  So if you didn't switch layers in the emulated Mac OS  
after Cut/Copy or before Paste (when interchanging with the host OS),  
you could get stale data.  Carbon apps always synchronize immediately  
and therefore don't have this problem.

When you install TESyncScrap, it patches TECut(), TECopy(), and  
TEPaste() to synchronize immediately (as in Carbon), preventing stale  
data when copying and pasting between an emulator and the host OS.

TESyncScrap
<http://www.jjuran.org/hacks/TESyncScrap.mbin>

TESyncScrap source
<https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/master/mac/hacks/ 
TESyncScrap/TESyncScrap.cc>

Josh