Starting June 15 and running till September 15 there will be a contest that anyone can enter to win up to $500. All it takes is writing a useful tool that can be used within CopyPaste to act on the clipboard contents.
CopyPaste is the shareware utility that was awarded a 5 mouse rating by MacUser and shareware utility of the year 1996. CopyPaste has also been featured in MacWeek, TidBits and many other magazines. CopyPaste magnifies the clipboard in many different ways and has been very popular with web developers, editors, writers, dtp professionals and everyone who uses the clipboard
The tools in CopyPaste are 68k FKEY code resources which read the clipboard, do a job and then write a result back to the clipboard. The programmers toolkit with sourcecode examples for many tools can be found at http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste/toolsSource.hqx
Fkeys are simple, small code resources so students should be fearless and enter even if you've never programmed before. Fkeys are great for learning programming because they are little projects and if you are already an experienced programmer, then here is a chance to make $100 per hour.
The utilities already in CopyPaste act on the clipboard contents. There are text, picture, date and internet utilities. They become useful because no matter what application your in you can use them to uppercase/lowercase, comment/uncomment, extract url's/eddresses, grab screen, remove spaces, insert date and many more but there are not enough.
Some of the possible tools that could be created are graphic filters, lexical analysers, mathematical calculators, other date inserters for Jewish or Hebrew or Islamic calendars, programmers helpers like hex to dec to bin, Internet tools like Eddress_Manager which simply could put a selected Eddress into the clipboard, and many many more tools which could use the clipboard as the easiest way to change and exchange data.
Other features built into CopyPaste
* Clip Extender - gives 10 easy to access clipboards via menu or key command.
* Clip Recorder - remembers the last 10 items copied via command c.
* Clip Archive - copied data is appended to one of 10 text files on disk.
* Save Clipboards thru Restarts
* Clip Sets - Sets of 10 clipboards can be loaded and saved to disk.
* Tag and Drop - copy selected text with a single mouseclick.
* CopyPaste Palette - a floating window that allows you to view/use all clips.
* Application Switcher lets you switch between running applications.
* Clipboard Viewer - lets you view the content of your clipboards.
* CopyPaste Utilities - these are internet, text, picture and date and time utilities that act on the clipboard. This is the place to fit in your newly created tools and the place to test them out.
Any programmer can make as many fkeys as they want and submit them to us for judging. The third best fkey will receive $100, the second best $150 and the best $250. Each will be judged on how useful, creative and unique they are and also how well they work with CopyPaste and the clipboard. The code submitted must be owned by the programmer but can be from a past project.
All submitted source code will be published on our site as freeware to help other programmers.
The top 3 fkey utilities will be included in future versions of CopyPaste and all those who enter a working fkey tool will be given a registered version of CopyPaste. Winners will all be announced and their accomplishments described to the media and on our web site.
Show us what you can do! This is an international contest so we want to see some international spirit and competition. Which country has the best programmers in the world? What programming language creates the best utility Basic, Pascal, C, C++, etc? What age group is the most creative? Apple has a great invention in the clipboad but it has not evolved. Help create the next phase in clipboard development.
Contact us for more details or if you have any questions.
