Re: ANNOUNCE ClipBook

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2003-10-28 18:20:24 +0200 Marko Riedel <mriedel@neuearbeit.de> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I think this is a wonderful idea and a really cool program.
> I tried to drop a color onto it. It accepted the color and then it
> said:
>
> openapp ClipBook.app 2003-10-28 16:14:39.375 ClipBook[6462] Unknown time zone 
> name `CET'.
> 2003-10-28 16:14:39.375 ClipBook[6462] Using time zone with absolute offset 0.
> 2003-10-28 16:14:39.374 ClipBook[6462] NOTE: Only one display per host fully 
> supported.
> 2003-10-28 16:14:40.420 ClipBook[6462] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at 
> 32.000000 (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--32-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1) is not 
> available.
> 2003-10-28 16:14:40.420 ClipBook[6462] The font specified for NSFont, 
> Helvetica, can't be found.
> 2003-10-28 16:14:40.433 ClipBook[6462] XGFont: selected font: Helvetica at 
> 32.000000 (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--32-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1) is not 
> available.
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Applications/ClipBook.app/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/ClipBook: 
> Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: NSDataMalloc(instance) 
> does not recognize displayData:ofType:
>
> The color evidently made it onto the pasteboard, because I get the
> same error message every time after that when I start ClipBook.app.

Well, I think that I've forgotten to implement the color part :-((((
Try with any of the other pasteboard types, they work.

> I ran ClipBook.app from the command line. I did not have GWorkspace
> running. Could that have something to do with it?

No, ClipBook is a standalone application.

> How does ClipBook.app update in response to other apps placing data on
> the pasteboard?

It does nothing :-) It is intended to be a place where you can store various 
pasteboard contents to reuse them when you need. The utility that shows the 
actual content of the pasteboard is an other think (I'm writing it)

> Best regards,