Ok, after five intense hours I moved enough FFI code out of Sophie into Pharo's extended clipboard logic to let you copy a graphic in Apple's Preview application, and *paste* that into Pharo which results in a Form. Worked on the first do-it, most pleased. Hints here are welcome, what do we do with it? In Sophie we knew the context of the paste target so we knew if the target wanted Image data or Text data. I'm not sure if in Pharo with a Form handy we know what to do with it? Oh and just to complicate things, little do you know but Microsoft Word for example sticks *lots* on the clipboard when you copy text from it. A slight list would be html rtf utf8 text unicode text utf16 macroman ascii (more MS types) Oh and a JPEG/PNG/TIFF of the page! This is a hassle since on the paste we have both an image and text, which do you want? Plus if you copy an image out of Word you get both the Image, oh and a text description of the image. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================