Re: [B2-devel] [PATCH] More clipboard-related fixes for Basilisk / SheepShaver

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

I installed the TESyncScrap extension in MacOS 9.0.4 in my latest SheepShaver 2.4 build and, of course, restarted. The system recognizes the file as extension.

However, it does not change anything to the behavior, in both directions, when trying to copy and paste text between OSX TexEdit and MacOS AppleWorks. It is exactly the same as I described yesterday, both the behavior in 32-bit mode and the behavior in 64-bit mode.

While trying this with and without the TESyncScrap extension, I found the easiest way to have copy and paste between TextEdit and AppleWorks work in 64-bit mode. Just leave the Clipboard window in MacOS Finder open. With the Clipboard window open, not only switching to the MacOS Finder after copying in AppleWorks works to paste in TextEdit but also, after copying in TextEdit, pasting in AppleWorks works after switching from AppleWorks to the MacOS Finder and back again to AppleWorks.


Ronald.

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Op 10 juli 2012, om 12:26, schreef Ronald P. Regensburg:


Ah! Apparently MacBinary. I have seen thousands of MacBinary files in past decades, always with a .bin file extension. This is the first time I see a .mbin extension.

I will try the extension to see if it solves the issues with AppleWorks and clipboard synchronizing.

Ronald.

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Op 10 juli 2012, om 11:55, schreef Ronald P. Regensburg:

What is a .mbin file? How do I use this?

Ronald.

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Op 10 juli 2012, om 02:27, schreef Josh Juran:

> On Jul 9, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Alexei Svitkine wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried using the Mac OS extension that Jean-Pierre posted  
>> to this list some time ago?
>> 
>> I think it's meant to solve exactly the problem of needing to  
>> change app focus before clipboard changes "stick".
>> 
>> I'd be curious to know whether it improves things for you.
> 
> Are you referring to TESyncScrap?
> 
> "Typical non-Carbon apps synchronize the system clipboard with the  
> TextEdit clipboard when you switch layers, i.e. bring another app  
> forward. If in between copying text and switching layers the app  
> crashes, or quits without synchronizing, or you're running it in an  
> emulator and you try to paste in another app in the host OS, you'll  
> get stale data. A similar issue pertains to pasting into the  
> emulator. TESyncScrap synchronizes the clipboard just after Cut/Copy  
> and just before Paste (like Carbon apps do), avoiding these issues."
> 
> http://www.jjuran.org/hacks/TESyncScrap.mbin
> 
> Josh