[comp.sys.mac.programmer] MPW and the Clipboard under MultiFinder

lipa@POLYA.STANFORD.EDU (William Lipa) (01/24/89)

I have a program which puts a PICT (and nothing else) into the clipboard.
It works fine as a standalone application under regular Finder and
MultiFinder. It works fine when compiled and sublaunched from MPW under
regular Finder. However, it doesn't work from within MPW under MultiFinder.
In this circumstance, MPW doesn't seem to recognize that any changes have
been made. What's worse is that it seems to erase the picture data so that
even quitting to the Finder and doing Show Clipboard displays only text.

I know about calling SystemEdit to record clipboard changes under
MultiFinder, so that doesn't seem to be the problem. I'd like to ask whether
anyone else out there has ever written a program which could put PICT data
into the clipboard as a sublaunched application from MPW under MultiFinder.
Is this possible?

Environmental info: Mac II, 4Mb, 256 color, System 6.0.2, MPW 2.0.2, Language
Systems Fortran 1.2.

Any and all advice appreciated.

Bill Lipa