ClipStation is an attempt at uniting the Drag Manager with the Clipboard. Drag-and-drop is a cool new way of moving data between applications, but not everybody supports it yet. Hence, you can use ClipStation as a “way station” between drag-and-drop and old-style cut/copy/paste.
When ClipStation is frontmost, it displays a window, showing the current contents of the Clipboard. You can drag a Finder clipping file into this window, and it will be copied to the Clipboard. You can then switch to a non-drag-savvy application, and paste it in there.
You can also copy something to the Clipboard, then bring ClipStation to the front, and drag the clipboard contents out of its window into another drag-savvy application (or Finder clipping file).
ClipStation is scriptable and recordable. It also supports QuickTime and QuickDraw GX. If you have a sound or movie on the Clipboard, you can click in ClipStation’s window to play it. It will also display a QuickDraw GX graphic on the Clipboard, and let you zoom it in and out for a better look: hold down command and space and click to zoom in, hold down command, option and space and click to zoom out, or click without holding any keys down to restore the scale to 100%.
• Limitations:
ClipStation only displays its window while it is frontmost. This is because it cannot validly display or modify the Clipboard contents while in the background. Unfortunately, this makes it difficult to drag data to ClipStation from most applications, as the only application that is currently capable of starting a drag without coming to the front is the Finder.
Changes to the Clipboard do not always propagate correctly to other applications. One-shot invocation of ClipStation by dropping a clipping file on its application icon is definitely unreliable. It works better if you launch it first.
If you zoom too far into a QuickDraw GX graphic, it starts drawing outside the window. I think this is a bug in QuickDraw GX.
