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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!news
  3. From: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu (Paul Burchard)
  4. Subject: Shouldn't there be a NXObjectPBoard pasteboard type?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.055026.17206@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
  6. Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
  7. Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
  8. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 05:50:26 GMT
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  11. Wouldn't it be nifty to copy and paste objects between windows or even apps?   
  12. This could easily be done using the Objective-C's built-in archiving  
  13. capabilities.  To copy, just archive the object onto the Pasteboard.  To paste,  
  14. unarchive it.  (Multiple objects can be placed into a List for transfer.)
  15.  
  16. However, to make this work between apps there would need to be a standardized  
  17. Pasteboard type registered with NeXT and included in the appkit header files.   
  18. Anyone know how I could register an NXObjectPBoard type with NeXT?
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  22. Paul Burchard    <burchard@math.utah.edu>
  23. ``I'm still learning how to count backwards from infinity...''
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