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#clipboard and tool types

    18-Jan-95 00:06:18
Sb: #clipboard and tool types
Fm: Keith Hicks 74654,3504
To: all
Hello all, Using Arexx or Dos (I have OS version 2.05),is there a way for me to read text/write text using the clipboard device ? I'd like to be able to read text sent to clipboard by Right Amiga (C or X) or by 'send to clipboard' ? If so how ? An explaination of what and where 'clipboard' is would also be helpful. I know there is a clipboard directory in ram: and I have used this with graphic brushes. I have a brush, which I use frequently, copied there by my user-startup.Then using Brilliance, I can simple select the 'from clipboard' when I need it. One other question,can the 'tool types' from an icon be read from rexx/DOS ? And yes,I know I really need to get a more extensive programming language, maybe someday I will. 🙂 I do have AMOS,but something about it turns me off. Thanks in advance, keith hicks ===AP=1=75===>