copyright: NOT! Feel free to use any of the source to Pasteboard Inspector.
David Holscher
Box #727
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN 47803
e-mail: holschdm@next-work.rose-hulman.edu
The PastebordInspector is a NeXTstep application which allows you to examine the contents of the current pasteboards (see the NeXT Developer documentation and the for more information on the Pasteboard). It also allows you to examine what the current selection would be on the pasteboard if used through services. It does this by making itself a service. You simply need to click on the Examine Pasteboard menu item under Services to do this. The Pastebord Inspector automatically looks at the current pasteboard when it starts up (and it looks at the services pasteboard when started from services). To examine the contents of any one of the four standard pasteboards at any time just select its name in the pasteboard browser. You may edit some of the pasteboard types and put them back using the Put Back button. I apologize that there isn't much help for Pasteboard Inspector, but it should be straight forward.
I originally wrote Pasteboard Inspector as somewhat of a hack to examine the contents of the pasteboard while working on a project that used the pasteboard extensively. It grew up somewhat from there as some of my colleges asked for exapanded capabilities. This is by far not what I would call a complete project, but it provides some example as to how to use the pasteboard - and can be of great help when working on applications that write to the pasteboard. It will find non-standard types on the pasteboard, but not any non-standard pasteboards.
To compile Pasteboard Inspector simply execute the "make" command in a shell while in the Pasteboard Inspector directory.
If you have any questions, comments, wants, or gripes feel free to send them to me e-mail.
