Re: Clipboard daemon

["Erick Woods" <erick gnomepro com>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Mike Hearn wrote:

> > I am of course paraphrasing. This is at least the
> > case with the MS Office apps, but it may be application specific.
>
> Yes, this is a feature of MS Office put into place to stop people dragging
> their machines to a halt by placing huge amounts of data onto the
> clipboard and then forgetting about it. It is not built into Windows, as
> far as I know, and not many apps do it (but then few apps are capable of
> putting such large data sets onto the clipboard anyway).
>
> If there was a central clipboard daemon I guess we could implement this
> feature there, the problem being how do you know when the user has
> finished with it?

That "feature" has been available in many other apps, such as Paint Shop
Pro, for several years.  It is annoying and you are able to shut the prompt
off.  Chances are, through normal usage, something else will be copied to
the clipboard soon and will replace that.  You are also able to tell PSP to
just dump everything on exit.

Erick Woods
erick gnomepro com
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