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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit Clipboard Format?
Message-ID: <3111@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 06:50:35 GMT
References: <4717@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <4717@husc6.harvard.edu> singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
>Could someone in the know kindly post some information on the scrap format
>that ResEdit uses, so that an application can handle resources copied to
>the ClipBoard in ResEdit?

  The "problem" with ResEdit isn't that it doesn't post to the clipboard
in a "known" format, it's that it doesn't covert the data to a "common"
format.

  It is my understanding that the format of the data on the Clipboard is
just the same as the resource that was copied.  So if you were to copy a
"BNDL", ResEdit would put a resource of type "BNDL" on the clipboard.  Now
most applications don't support "BNDL" data types, so they don't allow you
to "import" them.

  Most applications only import things from the clipboard such as "TEXT" or
"PICT" resources, and selected custom resource formats.

  Hope this helps.  I believe the information about to be accurate, but
I've been wrong before, and with so many different versions of ResEdit
running around you never know what they're going to do.

-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!