Re: Commit: put images on the clipboard, paste them from the CB

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 07:15:27 EDT

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    On 6 Sep 2002, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    > We now put image/png data on the clipboard when appropriate.
    >
    > As an aside, I had a talk with the GIMP maintainers this afternoon. They
    > will start posting data to the clipboard (finally) and it will be in PNG
    > format too, starting with the next unstable release.
    >
    > I also talked with some Mozilla and OO folk, and they're posting images
    > and HTML on the clipboard as well. Images for Moz lie under the image/*
    > domain, and the HTML now is UTF-8 data. We should be able to paste any
    > image format that our IE_ImpGraphic class supports. So if we have
    > GdkPixbuf or ImageMagick plugin installed, we're good to go in more
    > sense than one.
    >
    > Cool, eh?
    >

    Way cool indeed :-) Congrats Dom. Getting the GIMP/OO/Moz guys onside was
    also a great move.

    The OO guys should copy/paste RTF to the clipboard as well though.

    Now we need to import (X)HTML a bit better or at least not crash.

    Cheers

    Martin



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