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Re: PB bug or feature??


  • Subject: Re: PB bug or feature??
  • From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:54:13 +0100

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 05:27 pm, Joe Chan wrote:

I just discover an interesting PB behavior: if I have Mail and PB running at the same time, and when I typed in a search string in Mail, and then switch to a PB project window, the search string in Mail will be copied into the "Find:" text field of the Find panel of the project. Is this a feature or is it a bug? How did they accomplish this? It was very spooky before I realized what's going on.


They both use the same find pasteboard: in Cocoa, pasteboards are not limited to copy/paste. From NSPasteboard's doc:

NSFindPboard

The pasteboard that holds information about the current state of the active application's Find panel. This information permits users to enter a search string into the Find panel, then switch to another application to conduct another search.

IMHO it is a nice feature rather than a bug.

Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland http://www.sente.ch


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