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

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

On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Robert Munafo <mr...@gm...>  
> wrote:
>
>> In my scientific apps, written by me and running within SheepShaver,
>> the clipboard PICT data includes a label with important  
>> information as
>> text strings (DrawString). These label text strings need to survive
>> the transfer to the host OS in order for cut/paste to be useful.
>
> Assuming there's no good open source library to handle arbitrary  
> PICT data,
> the solution here would be to add some functionality to TESyncScrap  
> or a
> similar extension that would intercept clipboard data on the guest  
> OS side
> and when it's a PICT, rasterize it into PICT bitmap-only data,  
> putting that
> back on the guest clipboard.

This would be a separate extension which patches PutScrap().

> Then, when SheepShaver gets that data, the PICTs will be guaranteed  
> to only
> have bitmap data, which could be handled by paintlib (or possibly  
> even some
> simpler code we can just write for SheepShaver) which would then be  
> easily
> convertible to the host OS clipboard format.

I don't think replacing the PICT data is a good idea, since the pre- 
rasterized picture would no longer be available to other Mac  
applications.  But adding it as, say, 'Pict' or 'Bits' should work.

> This solution would then work cross-platform, instead of being tied  
> to Mac
> OS X as the host.

Shall I do this?

Josh