Recent improvements in support for the global clipboard across RISC OS
prompted me to look at some of my software, and I'm pleased to announce that version 0.20 of Clipper is now available to download from my website at

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/clipboard/

Formerly known as Clipboard, it seems that its name was never officially allocated from Acorn -- causing it to be re-christened with a moniker which isn't in use somewhere else.

For those who never encountered its predecessor, Clipper provides a simple window on to the global clipboard. The current clipboard content is shown as
a file icon (which reflects how RISC OS sees it internally), and can be
saved to disc in the usual drag-and-drop way. In addition, the content of
files from disc can be placed on the clipboard by dragging them into
Clipper's window.

The name isn't all that's changed, though. Clipper now contains full support for Interactive Help, and follows the Style Guide a little more closely throughout. There have also been some improvements to the implementation of
the Data Transer Protocol and the way that the clipboard content is tracked, which should make operation more reliable.

For those who are writing software to use the global clipboard, a "protocol" panel -- normally hidden from view -- shows the sequence of messages that
are sent back and forth as data moves around. This has been updated in the
new release, too, to include more detail of the complex exchanges which take place.

To reflect the extensive use of my standard Wimp library code in this new version of the software, Clipper's licence is the same European Union Public Licence version 1.1 (EUPL) as used by much of my other software. The EUPL is
an Open Source licence, which is considered compatible with a number of
other Open Source licences including the GNU GPL v2.

--
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/


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