Re: [MacPerl] Clipboard Transfer via AppleTalk

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

Hm, found out that MacPerl doesn't like to do the transfer if it is in the
background.  This is fixed (the server) to make MacPerl the front app, then
to make the previous front app front again when done.

#!perl -w
# clipboard_server.plx

package Dartmouth;
MacPerl::LoadExternals("Clipboard.XFCN");

package main;
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use Mac::Processes;
my($answer, $client, $server);

$server = IO::Socket::APPLETALK->new(
  Object  => 'ClipboardServer1',
  Listen  => 1,
) or die('Cannot start server');

while ($client = $server->accept()) {
  my $pr = GetFrontProcess();
  SetFrontProcess(get_front());sleep(1);
  my $do = <$client>;
  my @data;
  while (<$client>) {
    last if /^END\n$/;
    push @data, $_;
  }
  if ($do =~ /^Get/) {
    print $client "Sending:\n", Dartmouth::Clipboard();
  } else {
    Dartmouth::Clipboard(join('', @data));
    print $client "Saving:\n", @data;
  }
  close($client);
  # exit;  # always run server?
  SetFrontProcess($pr);
}

sub get_front {
  my %x;
  foreach (keys %Process) {
    $x{$Process{$_}->processSignature} = $_;
  }
  return $x{McPL};
}

__END__

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