[B2-devel] Test clipboard SheepShaver in Mac OS X

[Ronald P. R. <ron...@xs...>]

I tested SheepShaver clipboard integration in OSX 10.7.4 (Lion) with a two SheepShaver builds from yesterday's (June 23) source, downloaded from GitHub.

One UB build was made by me using the Xcode project with XCode 3.2.6 in OSX 10.6.8.
The other x86_64 only build was made by Howard Spoelstra in OSX 10.6.8 using the command line.

The x86_64 only build and the UB build in 64-bit mode behaved identically.


Findings:
 
In 32-bit mode:

Plain text:
Works in both directions, also for accented characters.

Formatted text:
Sort of a gamble. It may work with some applications, but not consistently.

Images from MacOS to OSX:
Works, but seems to work consistently only if the MacOS application from which the image is copied uses QuickTime for displaying images, like PictureViewer and Tex-Edit Plus do.

Images from OSX to MacOS:
Works from all tested applications.


In 64-bit mode:

Plain text from OSX to MacOS:
Works, also for accented characters.

Plain text from MacOS to OSX:
Works partially: Accented characters do not arrive correctly on the OSX clipboard.

Formatted text:
Not tested.

Images from MacOS to OSX:
Works from all tested applications.

Images from OSX to MacOS:
Works only from a few applications. It works when copied from Tex-Edit Plus (OSX version), but not when copied from Preview or GraphicConverter.

Copying images form OSX to MacOS does not work at all when the MacOS clipboard is empty (after a fresh restart) or contains text. The copied image does not appear on the MacOS clipboard, text on the clipboard is not replaced. Only when the MacOS clipboard already contains an image, another image that is copied in OSX will appear on the MacOS clipboard.


Ronald P. Regensburg.