Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Oops (Getting/setting clipboard)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 9.25 +0100 2000.04.14, Alan Fry wrote:
>At 8:51 pm -0400 13/04/00, Kevin Reid wrote:
>
>>In case my message did not get posted, here it is, all two lines:
>
>I didn't see it anyway...

Neither did I.


>>Is there any way to access the clipboard from MacPerl without sending
>>Apple Events to a scripting addition?
>
>Use Mac::LowMem;
>my $lmh = LMGetScraphandle;
>...
>my $cbs = $lmh->get;
>
>There are examples in MP_Write_1.3.plx.

Very cool.  I've been using the Cliboard.XFCN:

  LoadExternals('Clipboard.XFCN');
  print Clipboard();

However, MacPerl has to be the frontmost app for this to work, which is a
bummer sometimes.

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