Re: Gnome FAQ:Cut & Paste

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> If I've got a clipboard for baboon objects, I am able to, say, paste a 
> picture/meory blob/html script (or why not, a generic ascii text) into say, 
> my harddrive as a file/the text in my editor/an opened picture/html script 
> ect. ect. ect.
> 
> With X-windows cut'n paste functionality, I am able to copy ascii text.

The X-Window cut and paste functionality -I am told- does more thatn
copying ascii text, its just that nobody uses it.

We will be using the existing mechanisms to transfer the Baboon
information for cut and paste (basically, a CORBA object reference to
the object being pasted).  

The central idea in Baboon an OLE2 is that you actually implement the
data transfer interface in your object server: this data transfer
interface is used for cut and paste and for providing the support for
dragging objects to other containers: It is all very clean.

Miguel.