Re: New GWorkspace feature (fwd)

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- Enrico Sersale <address@hidden> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: 2003-10-09 13:38:04 +0300
>  From: Enrico Sersale <address@hidden>
> Subject: New GWorkspace feature
> 
> I've added support for cut, copy and paste to the tabbed shelf; that is, you
> can use it to keep multiple pasteboards contents and reuse them when you
> want. For example, you can put on a tab some Gorm objects and paste them in
> other Gorm files when you need.
> Actually the NSStringPboardType, NSRTFPboardType, NSRTFDPboardType,
> NSTIFFPboardType and the IBViewPboardType, are supported.
> For the NSStringPboardType, NSRTFPboardType, NSRTFDPboardType and
> NSTIFFPboardType types a preview of the contents is available in the
> GWorkspace Contents Inspector.
> ...
> 
> I'm writing a previewer for the IBViewPboardType that seems to work with many
> kind of objects copyed from a Gorm window. But I've noticed a problem:
> 
> 1) I create a NSBox in Gorm with a CustomView in it.
> 2) now I cut or copy the NSBox with its content.
> 3) then I paste it on the GWorkspace shelf or in a Gorm window.
> 
> In both the cases, (Gorm window or GWorkspace shelf) I get a "decoded nil
> class" or "expected object and got unsigned int" exception from NSUnarchiver.
> So, I think that the bug is in Gorm, where the pasteboard is created.
> Before committing, I'd want to know if this is a known Gorm problem and if it
> will be fixed soon.
> 

I believe I might know what the issue is.   

If your most recent version of GWorkspace has been checked into CVS I would be
happy to start working on a solution to fix this.

Thanks, GJC

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