Thursday, 2 August 2012

Re: Amiga and BeOS front end selection/clipboard handling

On 02/08/2012 18:56, Chris Young wrote:
>> The list or text_runs is then committed as a separate object along with
>> the plain/text item in the clipboard, which applications like StyledEdit
>> can use.
>
> Shame the text styles in IFF FTXT are a load of rubbish/hardly
> supported anywhere (the F stands for "formatted", but I've only ever
> seen it used for plain text).
>
> There was some discussion recently about new text style chunks. If
> it's possible to get the style info out of NetSurf it might be worth
> me defining and submitting my own chunk.
>
> I know BeOS was inspired by AmigaOS, but does it use IFF for the
> clipboard or something else?

No, it's a BMessage with different field named after their mime types.

The Translation Kit was largely inspired by the datatypes.library
though, it started as a contribution named alike actually.

François.

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