Re: Proposed Mac::Pasteboard

On Jan 26, 2008 10:46 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2:31 am, [email protected] (Brian D Foy) wrote:
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> > [email protected]>, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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'd like to have such a thing, although you should call it
> > Mac::Clipboard :)
>
> I dithered about this. The arguments as I see them are:
>
> For Mac::Clipboard
>
> 1) That's what most people call the thing.
>
> For Mac::Pasteboard
>
> 1) It's what the Apple documentation calls it.
>
> 2) There's a lot more to it than (e.g.) Win32::Clipboard. For one
> thing, there's more than one of them -- in fact, as many as you like.
> Each can have multiple data items, with data in multiple flavors.
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Why choose?  Write Mac::Pasteboard with all of the bells and whistles
and then write Mac::Clipboard using Mac::Pasteboard to expose only the
clipboard.  In the SEE ALSO section you can reference Mac::Pasteboard
and people who need the advanced functionality can find it.