simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike) (06/28/90)
My release copy of MacX arrived today. I thought the copy menu item
was dimmed just for the beta copy I had originally set up and practised
with. It turns out that copying text or images to the clipboard from
a window is not explicitly supported---even from a rootless (i.e. normal-
looking Mac) window. Instead, one has to run a client to do the work,
while MacX monitors the activity and makes a local copy.
I know this is what I would expect under X, but, hell, we have a bitmap
displayed by MacX in a Macintosh window. Why can't I copy it to the
clipboard the usual way immediately so that I can paste it into a
document somewhere else ? The main reason why I use MacX is to get graphics
from applications which don't exist in the Mac world, and I would think
a large number of potential MacX users fall in the same category.
Is this something that we might see in a later version, maybe?
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