I was trying to rework the clipboard logic last fall but I couldn't find any window users to test it. Things like supporting cut/copy/paste of graphics objects. 
But it also required FFI in Pharo and I don't think anyone reached a decision on that. If anyone would like to take that task on I"ll give them an image to 
work with...

I'll note in Sophie we support the cut/copy/paste of complex objects (chunks of books). A matter of checking what the object was, either 
text or a complex object. 

PS if anyone is interested the Undo/Redo Logic that Impara did for Sophie was very well received, easy to use, and we could build a book from scratch 
then undo the entire creation, then redo it. This sounds complex, it was. However the framework made it easy, one piece at a time...  
Perhaps someone should harvest that since it *was* generic. 


On 2010-01-12, at 1:10 AM, C�drick B�ler wrote:


Perhaps a unified clipboard would be nicer... objects or text (or,
potentially converible to host OS things...).

yes that would be really great (copy name seems useless to me... better to have copy object and paste name eventually) ! 
But I don't have the expertise to do it I guess. For now we have in the image:

Clipboard
   ExternalClipboard (from Sophie)
     MacOSClipboard
   SqueakClipboard  (empty !)

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