Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Anyone looking for a toy project?

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On Nov 19, 2003, at 5:20 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
> Apparently it is currently windows-only, but I would love to have 
> functionality like this cross-platform.
> And I think on MacOSX we could put it in the Services menu with PyObjC.

See:

	http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/04/09/134204.shtml?tid=182

There are ways to monitor the pasteboard and automatically detect 
changes.  So, for inbound changes it is just a matter of calling 
declareTypes:owner: on the NSGeneralPasteboard, then pushing the new 
data onto the pasteboard.   For outbound changes-- for a copy action on 
some other app on the OS X system-- you will need to catch the change 
in a fashion similar to one of the apps mentioned in the above thread 
and push the change out across the wire.

This has the advantage of being transparent/automatic -- would not 
require user intervention via the Services menu.   nsRemotePasteboard 
has the disadvantage of polling.  It looks like from the API of 
NSPasteboard that it may be possible to receive notifications 
automatically whenever the pasteboard changes.

I am not familiar with the Carbon clipboard/pasteboard APIs.  There may 
be something there that can do the automatic notif?

b.bum