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Pasteboard Inspector

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.
	

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