Subject: Re: Suggestion
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 13:44:45 CDT
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> P.Denis wrote:
> >The Suggestion;
> > To be able to create a "scrap" on the desktop from selecting the eg.
> text and
> > draging it to the desktop as most word processors allow you to do.
> Effectively
> > creating the scrap which does not require the process of saving etc.
>
> This seems like a reasonable request. It would be easy enough to
> implement in Win32 (except the fact that the "scrap" could be _any_
> possible format :-/). What should we go for here? RTF? What about X11?
> BeOS?
Until I end up defining a non-microsoft standard for word processor
interoperability, RTF is by far our best canditate. AFAIK, every platform
out there supports it (witness the clipboard). If we create these scraps
(which are necessaily not appliable to X, at least for the most part) RTF
is the best format.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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