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SmartBoard R1.0 Windows ClipBoard Extender
WINDOWS FEB96 CLIPBOARD CUT COPY PASTE TEXT GRAPHICS 95
FILES: SMTBRD10
Author: Colin Messitt (Oakley Data Services)
REGISTRATION: $24.95
SmartBoard is a "Clipboard Extender" for Windows. The normal
Windows Clipboard can only retain a single item at a time -
as soon as you copy a second item on to the Clipboard you
lose the first one. With SmartBoard running that is no
longer true, SmartBoard retains multiple "Clip Items", even
across a Windows restart, and allows simple pasting back of
any of them into any application.
SmartBoard runs as an invisible task in Windows - there is
no icon cluttering up your desktop - but a single mouse-click
or hot-key press pops SmartBoard up on top of your current
application allowing you to select the "Clip Item" you want
to paste, and then disappears out of the way again having
pasted it into the current application automatically - you
don't normally even need to use the application's paste
command. Using Smartboard is a complete no-brainer, you just
pop it into your Start-up group and forget it until you need
it. It appears almost "built-in" to the operating system
itself.
SmartBoard supports all clipboard formats, and allows you
to configure it in exactly the way that works for you. You
can specify what clipboard formats to capture, from what
programs, limit captures to items under a specific size and
specify preferred formats from particular programs. For
example you could specify that you want to capture both
Rich Text Format and plain Text from Microsoft Word, and
the Lotus compatible XL1 format from Microsoft Excel, but
only if it is less than 50K in size.
The modern interface looks much like File Manager or the
Win95 Explorer, with a set of user-definable categories down
the left side, and the content of the currently selected
category on the right. In the case of text items the first
few characters are shown, Bitmaps and Metafiles show as
thumbnails and other data gives capture details.
You can assign nicknames to any of the items to help
identification, and you can "zoom-in" on an item for a closer
look by right-clicking. Zooming in on text presents a pop-up
window showing the first few lines complete with formatting
(tabs/line breaks etc.), zooming in on graphics shows them
full-size. A unique "plug-in viewer" interface allows the
development of zoom-in capability for any other Clipboard
format, and we supply a sample which plays any wave files
that have been captured from the Clipboard. The interface is
open and we supply sample source-code to help other
developers.
A system-wide hot-key facility allows you to associate a key
combination with a particular item, then whenever you press
the key combination the associated item is automatically
pasted into the current application.
You can move items around between categories using Drag 'n
Drop, and append multiple text items together. Items can
be edited, printed or copied to file. In the case of Text
items a "template" capability allows the user to create
"boilerplate" items with variable fields that can either be
updated automatically (dates/times etc.) or by the user
specifying the required replacement data via a dialog box
at paste time.
All the usual elements of a modern Windows application, such
as toolbars, fly-by and context sensitive help are included
making SmartBoard easy to use.
Requires: WINDOWS 3.1 or 95, VGA MONITOR, PRINTER