A couple of years ago the Sophie team built out the logic to enable the cut/copy/paste of a tremendous amount of clipboard data types in and out of Squeak. For the macintosh this include image data, data from selections made in the finder, and oh I don't know it seemed like 42 flavours of Textual data. it seems a shame to let that go all to waste and let Pharo languish with UTF-8. The problem has always been Oh EToys won't support FFI so progress on this front seems dim. However I'm wondering if there is any interested if I port the Sophie clipboard work to Pharo? Using FFI for the macintosh & Windows, where windows requires QuickTime for Window. Note the Sophie team decided because Quicktime for Window was a pre- requirement for iTunes that well everyone has iTunes on windows now... PS I note there are some hassles, Microsoft word for example sticks both the TIFF for the page, the UTF-16, UTF-8, ascii, macroman etc. on the the clipboard for a page. Very difficult to figure out what to do for that, in that case we knew the target was either image data, or text data, since we knew what the target was, but for Pharo I"m not sure what the solution would be. -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================