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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Team AMIGA Wish List
- Date: 18 Mar 96 10:50:55 +0000
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- Hi, Nick Christie , on 15-Mar-96 13:51:12 you scribbled....
- >humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich) wrote:
- >>Gemini2@cup.portal.com wrote about "Team AMIGA Wish List" on "12-Mar-1996
- >>23:00:32" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
- >>> *ClipBoard
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- >The Amiga has, and always had, reasonable clipboard facilities.
- >The problem was that applications often didn't take full
- >advantage of it. Admittedly, pre-IFFParse library, it was a
- >fiddly business.
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- same with a lot of amiga features....
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- >>Implement something like Windows' OLE !
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- >OLE V1 works a bit like a fancy clipboard, but OLE V2 (what people
- >*really* mean by OLE) is much more ambitious and sophisticated. In
- >brief, it allows "in-place editing" by treating applications
- >as component objects.
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- >Imagine having a document open in your word processor and wanting
- >to edit a bitmap image that's on the page; you click on the image
- >and your menus and toolbars turn into those of your favourite paint
- >program. Click on some text and they turn back to WP menus/toolbars.
-
- >This approach is document-centric rather than application-centric
- >and is (supposed to be?) a more natural way of working.
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- I'd LOVE this! I'm sure it wouldnt be oo hard to implement...especially with
- public screens...
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- Mike
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