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Re: NSPasteboardItem issues
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Re: NSPasteboardItem issues


  • Subject: Re: NSPasteboardItem issues
  • From: Gordon Apple <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:49:54 -0500
  • Thread-topic: NSPasteboardItem issues

Invariably happens.  I hesitate and agonize over whether to hit the ³send²
button, then promptly discover the solution.  Apparently, I need to be using
³canReadItemWithDataConformingTpTypes² instead.  However, it is still a
mystery to me as to why the other failed.


On 6/20/12 12:28 PM, "Gordon Apple" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm trying to convert code to use the new pasteboard methods, and having a few
> issues.  For private types, I need to use NSPasteboardItem because the
> read/write protocols don't work for managed objects.  (readObjects
> automatically uses NSKeyedUnarchiver and I use a subclass to provide the moc.)
> The following claims success in writing to the general pasteboard, but the
> paste handler is not seeing the NSPasteboardItem.  The property list is an
> array of data.
>
> //    Copy
> - (void) putShapes:(NSArray*)shapes ontoPasteboard:(NSPasteboard*)pboard {
>     [pboard clearContents];
>     NSPasteboardItem *pbItem = [[NSPasteboardItem alloc] init];
>     [pbItem setPropertyList:[self propListForShapes:shapes]
> forType:RTPShapesType];
>     NSArray *objArray = [NSArray arrayWithObject:pbItem];
>     BOOL success = [pboard writeObjects:objArray];
>     //  success = YES;
> }
>
> //    Paste
>     classArray = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[NSPasteboardItem class]];
>     if([pboard canReadObjectForClasses:classArray options:dict]) {
>     //    This fails.  *dict = [NSDictionary dictionary]
>
> Is there anything obvious I'm missing?
>
> Another question -- Dragging in a color chip provides both an NSColor and an
> NSPasteboardItem.  Given the first, what use is the latter?


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