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- SmartBoard32 R1.21 Windows ClipBoard Extender
- WINDOWS JUN 97 CLIPBOARD CUT COPY PASTE TEXT GRAPHICS 95 NT
- FILES: SMTB3212
-
- Author: Colin Messitt (Oakley Data Services)
- REGISTRATION: $24.95
-
- SmartBoard is a "Clipboard Extender" for Windows 95/NT. The
- normal Windows Clipboard can only retain a single item at a
- time - as soon as you copy a second item on to the Clipboard
- you lose the first one. With SmartBoard running that is no
- longer true, SmartBoard retains multiple "Clip Items", even
- across a Windows restart, and allows simple pasting back of
- any of them into any application.
-
- SmartBoard runs as an invisible task in Windows - there is
- no icon cluttering up your desktop - but a single mouse-click
- or hot-key press pops SmartBoard up on top of your current
- application allowing you to select the "Clip Item" you want
- to paste, and then disappears out of the way again having
- pasted it into the current application automatically - you
- don't normally even need to use the application's paste
- command. Using Smartboard is a complete no-brainer, you just
- pop it into your Start-up group and forget it until you need
- it. It appears almost "built-in" to the operating system
- itself.
-
- SmartBoard supports all clipboard formats, and allows you
- to configure it in exactly the way that works for you. You
- can specify what clipboard formats to capture, from what
- programs, limit captures to items under a specific size and
- specify preferred formats from particular programs. For
- example you could specify that you want to capture both
- Rich Text Format and plain Text from Microsoft Word, and
- the Lotus compatible XL1 format from Microsoft Excel, but
- only if it is less than 50K in size.
-
- The modern interface looks much like File Manager or the
- Win95 Explorer, with a set of user-definable categories down
- the left side, and the content of the currently selected
- category on the right. In the case of text items the first
- few characters are shown, Bitmaps and Metafiles show as
- thumbnails and other data gives capture details.
-
- You can assign nicknames to any of the items to help
- identification, and you can "zoom-in" on an item for a closer
- look by right-clicking. Zooming in on text presents a pop-up
- window showing the first few lines complete with formatting
- (tabs/line breaks etc.), zooming in on graphics shows them
- full-size. A unique "plug-in viewer" interface allows the
- development of zoom-in capability for any other Clipboard
- format, and we supply plug-ins to support the RIFF Wave format
- (for copying sounds), the RTF format (used by WordProcessors)
- and the "File-List-Handle" format (integral to the Win95/NT
- explorer. The interface is open and we supply sample source
- code to help other developers.
-
- A system-wide hot-key facility allows you to associate a key
- combination with a particular item, then whenever you press
- the key combination the associated item is automatically
- pasted into the current application. Or you can paste up and
- down lists of items using hot-keys.
-
- You can move items around between categories using Drag 'n
- Drop, and append multiple text items together. Items can
- be edited, printed or copied to file. In the case of Text
- items a "template" capability allows the user to create
- "boilerplate" items with variable fields that can either be
- updated automatically (dates/times etc.) or by the user
- specifying the required replacement data via a dialog box
- at paste time.
-
- All the usual elements of a modern Windows application, such
- as toolbars, fly-by and context sensitive help are included
- making SmartBoard easy to use.
-
-
- Requires: WINDOWS 95 or NT.
-