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Some thoughts on non-text formats in clipboard
- From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:09:54 +0100
- Subject: Some thoughts on non-text formats in clipboard
- Organization: Zylin AS
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
One problem is data format conversion. Clearly it is not feasible to
implement the conversion back and forth between X clipboard formats and
Windows formats. There are too many formats and combinations.
Here is what I do today:
- Copy in e.g. OO under Linux
- Paste into a new OO file under Linux
- Save to disk under Linux
- ftp/scp, etc. the file to my Windows machine
- Load up in OO under Windows
- Copy
- Paste whereever.
This is a bit laborious, but it shows that format conversion code
exists, though I'm not sure how to levarage it to increase of ease of
use.
Øyvind