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I need your help to decode what is in the clipboard (return clipboard info)
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I need your help to decode what is in the clipboard (return clipboard info)


  • Subject: I need your help to decode what is in the clipboard (return clipboard info)
  • From: Emile SCHWARZ <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:35:37 +0100 (CET)

Hi all,

I select and copy an application from the Finder, and, using the following Script:

return clipboard info


I get:

{{string, 10}, {Unicode text, 20}, {«class hfs », 80}, {«class utf8», 10}, {«class ut16», 22}, {picture, 42}, {«class icns», 22138}, {«class furl», 55}}

As everyone can guess from the list, these are a list of 8 objects, each object having a type and a length. As an example, here’s the decodage of the first object:

{string, 10}
string = class type
10 = length in gytes


In this 8 object list, I have two questions:

1. Please confirm (or deny and say what it is if I am wrong and you know why):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

«class ut16» = Text string with utf-16 encodings?



2. Where can I find the informations about the {«class hfs », 80} object ?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

What I have found (if correct) until now is:

0000:	OSTYPE	File Type
0004:	OSTYPE	Creator Type
0008:	Word	unknow (two bytes)
000A:	Word	File VRefNum ? (two bytes)
000C:	Word	unknow (two bytes)
000E:	Word	Folder DirID ? (two bytes)
0010:	PString	Item name (Byte length followed by the item name without encoding) [1]
0030:		unknow contents

and I do not have a single idea of what follows in the remainder $20 bytes.


Idea, book to read, URL, whatever, please.

TIA,

Emile


[1] If the file name length is > 31 bytes, we get the "file name truncated at 22 chars ending with # and a 4 digits code followed by the extension (.png in my example)"

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