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Re: how to empty clipboard contents?
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Re: how to empty clipboard contents?


  • Subject: Re: how to empty clipboard contents?
  • From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:14:39 -0500

Michael Bovee wrote [3/22/04 7:06 PM]:

> Thanks for the help so far! Your suggestions will really improve my
> script. But before getting into that below, I still would like to know
> if its possible to talk to the finder about the state of the clipboard?
> Maybe not necessary for this script, but down the road.

I believe there is a distinction between the system-wide clipboard and the
MSO clipboard.

To clear the system clipboard you can set it to any value.

This works for me (OS 9.1):

set the clipboard to ""
--> {}
--
Gary
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