Publishable or Published?

[David Herren]

Having only really programmed for NeXTStep and OPENStep, I don't know 
how other OSs handle this, but the Pasteboard in OpenStep, now cocoa 
(and I have no experience since apple bought next), would "offer" the 
receiving application a range of formats from fully styled, formatted, 
with ruler states to plain text, and the receiving app would respond by 
requesting the best format it could handle or wanted--so at least on 
NextStep/OpenStep, in a sense, it was the receiving app that determined 
the format of the pasted material.

On Feb 22, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Bowerbird at aol.com wrote:

> um, no, i don't think so.  the receiving application
> can't do anything except take what is on the clipboard.
> it is the application that _puts_ the text on the clipboard
> with the burden of making sure it does a good job of doing that.
>

/david

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