Re: Proposed Mac::Pasteboard

Hi,

I assume with pasteboard you mean the clipboard?

There seems to be an attempt of a generic cliboard interface on CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Clipboard/ 
) which according to the readme says it works on OS X. I suppose it  
just uses the 'pbcopy' and 'pbpaste' command line tools.

Cheers,
Claes

On 21 jan 2008, at 04.15, [email protected] wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I don't know if I'm re-inventing the wheel here, so I thought I'd ask.
>
> Is there a module that will let one manipulate a Mac OS X  
> pasteboard? There  does not seem to be anything on CPAN that strikes  
> me as being for that purpose. I kind of expected something in  
> Mac::Carbon to do the job, but if it's there I can't find it. Of  
> course, I'm perfectly capable of not seeing my nose in front of my  
> face ...
>
> I have been hacking around with a .xs module based on the Pasteboard  
> interface. This means it requires at least Mac OS 10.3 (Panther). So  
> my questions for the mailing list are:
>
> Have I re-invented the wheel? If so, where should I have looked that  
> I didn't for this functionality?
>
> Is there any interest in publication of this module? Putting data on  
> and taking data off the pasteboard appear to work now. I haven't  
> looked into promised data at all, and can't promise to support it in  
> the future. I also don't anticipate the module being smart enough to  
> figure out the appropriate flavor for a given datum, or other  
> "flavor-aware" functionality. Also, I haven't yet figured out where  
> to put everything to support Module::Build, so it's  
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker for now. It's an o-o interface, with an object  
> representing a pasteboard. There are a couple convenience routines  
> exported by default (should they be?) called pbcopy() and pbpaste(),  
> which instantiate an object to access the system clipboard, access  
> it, and then throw the object away. The flavor and synch flags would  
> be exportable as constants.
>
> If I end up publishing, what name should I use? It appears that most  
> Mac OS specific things have been dumped into the Mac:: name space,  
> Dan Kogai's MacOSX::Files being the exception. The proposal was  
> Mac::Pasteboard because that's the interface used (rather than the  
> scrap manager).
>
> And a meta-question: what other information do I need to supply for  
> people to be able to comment meaningfully?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Tom Wyant (mailing address to the contrary notwithstanding)