With MoreClips you can use more than one clipboard. Simple choose the clipboard you want to copy in or paste from and copy and paste as usual. MoreClips is a fat application - not a system extension -, so you can quit it when you want to save memory.
Because MoreClips does not patch or modify any system software routines, it runs quite stable.
When you quit MoreClips, the contents of the selected clipboard get into the "normal" clipboard.
Be careful! The content of all the other clipboards will be lost!
To choose one clipboard, you can select it from the "File"-menu, type command-"1" to command-"5" or click on it in the floating window. The active clipboard is displayed gray in the floating window.
Rotate Window
To rotate the window, choose "Rotate window" from the "Special"-menu or type command-"R".
Switch/AutoSwitch
To switch back to the program you was previous, choose switch from the "Special"-menu or type Command-B. If Auto-Switch is selected, MoreClips switches automatically back when you select another clipboard. The Auto-Switch setting is saved in the MoreClips Preferences file.
Tip:
You may want to put MoreClips or an alias of it into your "StartUp Items" folder in the System Folder (only System 7 and higher).
Use MoreClips FKEY to change clipboards from other programs without switching to MoreClips. You can even change clipboards within a dialog-box without leaving it.
When you choose "MoreClips FKEY..." from the Special menu, a dialog-box appears which shows seven "slots" in which you can install the MoreClips FKEY. To install MoreClips FKEY in your System file, choose a "slot" (it must be empty) in which you want to install it and click on "Install". To remove a FKEY (you can remove any FKEY, not only MoreClips FKEY), select its slot and click remove.
To invoke the FKEY, type Command + Shift + the number of the slot you chose in the dialog-box. The cursor changes to a small clipboard with a question mark in it. Now type the number of the clipboard you want to change to - it must be from 1 to 5.
If there is an error, the MoreClips FKEY beeps. If it beeps
• once you typed not a number from 1 to 5
• twice MoreClips is not launched or connection to MoreClips is invalid
• triple there was a Toolbox error. Probably there is not enough memory
to switch clipboards or a resource is missing
• 4 times there was an error while the communication with MoreClips - perhaps
the version of MoreClips does not match the version of the FKEY
Applications with private clipboard
Some application have an own, private clipboard. They write their own clipboard to the "public" clipboard (which MoreClips accesses) only when they are switched to the background and they read the public clipboard to their private clipboard only when they are switched to the front. Probably you will have problems using MoreClips FKEY (not MoreClips) with this applications - when you change clipboards with MoreClips FKEY, it reads from/writes to the public keyboard only, the private clipboard of the front application is not updated/remains unchanged. With this applications, you have to switch clipboards using MoreClips (if you change clipboards with MoreClips, the application is switched to the background and back to the front, so they do their clipboard conversion).
