> Out of curiosity, is it possible to access any other data on the clipboard.

At least for linux this is most likely not possible, as the underlying VM code requests unicode string (that's what I remember when I was debugging it about a year ago). In X11 clipboard, the client must explicitly request the type of content he is interested in.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:

you need to accept the contents in order for the workspace to store your text, you can use either right click menu and accept or the shortcut that menus shows then you can get the contents as a string via

ws := Workspace open.
"type text and then accept it"
ws contents asString

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:57 AM Andy Burnett <andy.burnett@knowinnovation.com> wrote:
@Dimitris

Thanks for the Workspace idea. That is pretty much what I am looking for. However, I am struggling to get it to behave the way I want.
When I type into the Workspace, and then inspect
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ws contents

I just get an empty string. Is there a simple way to get the ws to update its contents so that I can access it?

@Sven, @Doru. Thanks. The Clipboard approach is very slick. I will use that for the time being. Out of curiosity, is it possible to access any other data on the clipboard. For instance, if I copy a pictured from my desktop, is that accessible via the Clipboard object? I only saw text oriented methods.

Thanks
Andy