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

[C.W. B. <mad...@gm...>]

Actually, it's probably happening in the pasteboard server. The Cocoa pasteboard can have multiple types of data in it, and some formats can be converted natively under Cocoa. In fact, the gimp-macclipboard did this to convert TIFFs to PICTs.
On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Robert Munafo wrote:

> On 6/18/12, Charles Srstka <bas...@ch...> wrote:
>> Are there any OS X / Windows apps that currently accept pasteboard data in
>> PICT format though?
> 
> No, that's why SheepShaver converts it. Here are the steps, to make it clear:
> 
> 1. I start SheepShaver, and start my old app within SheepShaver.
> 2. Copy to clipboard.
> 3. Switch to Snow Leopard's TextEdit, hit Paste.
> 4. I get my image, with the original bitmap image and the label text
> nicely rendered below it.
> 
> Somewhere in the process (SheepShaver and/or TextEdit) it has turned
> the PICT, including the label text, into a TIFF image.
> 
> The text is there because something in the Carbon libraries is making
> it happen. But it we use that stand-alone PICT conversion library
> instead of Carbon, the text label would be missing.
> 
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