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

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Nov 19, 2003, at 10:53 AM, b.bum wrote:

> 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?

I think that it's better to use something explicit for 
security/privacy/efficiency reasons.  If you're using a 
services-capable app you really just need to smash the hotkey, you 
don't have to know it's a service per se.  I suppose it could have an 
option to link your local clipboard to the remote clipboard.

I think it would be cool to put rendezvous in there, and perhaps a 
browser that let you look at everyone's net-clipboard on the LAN in 
real-time-ish.  Then of course there's digital signatures for internet 
exchange.. you could really spend a lot of time on a project like this, 
though it would probably be best integrated into something like 
SubEthaEdit (or a PyObjC replacement for SubEthaEdit)?

-bob