One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items. Now you can with a vengeance!
Drop CopyPaste on top of the System Folder and it will tell you it wants to go into the Extension Folder, hit OK. Restart.
CopyPaste magnifies the clipboard in different ways. We call these:
• Clip Extender - gives 10 easy to access clipboards via menu or key command.
• Clip Recorder - remembers the last 10 items copied via command c.
• Clip Archive - copied data is appended to one of 10 text files on disk.
• Save Clipboards thru Restarts - allows all 10 clipboards to be saved thru shutdown or restart.
• Clip Sets - Sets of 10 clipboards can be loaded and saved to disk. Various Clip Sets can be created
for different tasks. Clip Sets can also be sent to other CopyPaste users for them to load and use.
• Tag and Drop - selected text can be copied to a different location with a single mouseclick.
• CopyPaste Palette - a floating window that allows you to view/use the 10 clipboards in Clip
Extender and in Clip Recorder.
• CopyPaste Utilities - there are internet, text , picture and date and time utilities that act on the clipboard.
• Application Switcher lets you switch between running applications to copy and paste across them.
• Clipboard Viewer - lets you view the content of your clipboards. It displays the text or the picture
or it plays the sound.
CopyPaste eliminates tedious repetitive work and increases your ability to get the job done. The Foating Palette and the Clipboard Viewer require at least System 7.1!
CopyPaste is the winner of the MacUser Shareware Utility of 1996 and America Online's Macintosh Utilities Shareware Award for 1996.
• System Requirements
CopyPaste requires at least System 7.0. For the Foating Palette and the Clipboard viewer at least System 7.1 is required!
••• VERY IMPORTANT: If you upgrade to a newer version of CopyPaste, you have to remove any older version manually from the Extensions Folder of your System. You should also delete the files CopyPasteData and CopyPasteStore from the Preferences Folder of your System. Under a rare circumstance during a system crash with a past version of CopyPaste the file CopyPasteStore could get corrupted. One sign is inability to restore clipboards through restarts. In this case delete the CopyPasteStore file from your Preferences Folder.
• Shareware
Please Support Mac Shareware
Send $20 Credit Card, Cash, Check, or Money Order and your name, address and e-mail address to one of the addresses below
The CopyPaste Registration Form with details how to pay is at the end of this manual or in the CopyPaste folder
The shareware message at boot-time is a reminder to register. Registered users get:
• A key to remove the startup dialog
• CopyPaste runs in PowerPC native mode (fast) only in registered versions
• Enhancements, including more text processing abilities
• E-mail hotline tech support (rarely needed but nice)
• The knowledge that you are participating in the evolution of CopyPaste
• Email notifying you immediately of new versions (USA and Canada only)
• Clip Archives are only available to registered users
• Save Clipboards thru Restarts is available only to registered users
• All future upgrades and enhancements are available free to registered users
• QuickStart
Drop the CopyPaste extension (its icon looks like a puzzle piece) on to your system folder. A dialog will appear asking you whether you want this item to go into the extension folder, hit OK, restart your computer. CopyPaste is now loaded. You may see the window below if not hold down the command key with the one hand with the other type the letters c then p (command c p), the CopyPaste Palette will appear and looks like this. Try hiding and showing the palette by doing command c p again and again.
At the bottom of this palette is a button with a ? on it push this button to get help for CopyPaste anytime in any program. Click a few of the buttons to get a general idea of whats here. Then click the button just to the left of the ? button (above it is labeled preferences) this button takes you to the CopyPaste preferences which looks like this.
Notice in the CopyPaste preferences that holding your cursor over any of the items will fill the info box at the bottom with info on that preference. In the CopyPaste Preferences check the checkbox for the item called CopyPaste Utilities don't change any of the other preferences at this time (read below for more details). If you have a powerbook or a small screen you may want to turn off the option 'Open Palette on Restart' which always opens the palette when you start your Mac. If you check the 'Utilities Menu' item and save these preferences you'll notice a new item at the bottom of the Edit menu called CopyPaste Utilities. This gives you another way to quickly access many of the functions of CopyPaste. Below is a picture of what the new CopyPaste Utilities menu item leads to. This picture also shows the 10 clipboards accessible from the copy menu (and all in use!).
Now to try CopyPaste for the first time please read about Clip Extender the next item in this document.
ALL THE INFO BELOW CAN BE FOUND IN THE BUILT IN HELP OF CopyPaste
• Clip Extender - something you'll use all the time!
CopyPaste gives you ten clipboards instead of just one! Type the usual keyboard command for copy or cut and then any number between 1 and 9 before releasing the command key. Paste works in the same way. In addition to the normal clipboard you now have nine more. Open an application like simpletext or any word processor or text editor and type some text.
Its this easy:
1. select an object (picture, text, sound...),
2. hold down the command key,
3. type "C" (or "X" or "V"),
4. type a number between 1 and 9,
5. release the command key.
Its really simple, just the addition of a number to the usual commands gives you 10 clipboards.
In case you've forgotten which clipboard goes with which number or you prefer the mouse to the keyboard, you'll find each clipboard listed in new submenus in any application's edit menu. There you will find "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" have new submenus numbered from 0 to 9. Each number may show, the first 30 characters of a text clip, or in the case of non-text •Picture•, •Sound•, or •Movie•.
If you don't type a number then the standard clipboard will be used. In the submenus this will be number "0".
• Clip Recorder
Clip Recorder is a brand new feature in version 3.3.
We call it Clip Recorder because the last 10 items copied with command c are all remembered. They are stored on a stack. Each time you use command c that clip is placed on the stack and previous clips are moved up a slot. Its easiest to see. Open the CopyPaste Palette click on the Clip Recorder (cassette icon at the bottom) and a whole new set of clips is visible. Highlight some text, do command c and you will see it appear in clip 0 of Clip Recorder, highlight some other text, do command c and you will see this new text go into clip 0 and what was in clip 0 move up to clip 1. That is how the stack works and it can be thought of as multiple levels of undo for the last 10 items you copied using command c. Clip Recorder is on all the time by default and separate from the Clip Extender that you have used previously. If you need something you copied 5 copies ago then you can open the CopyPaste Palette and go to Clip Recorder or you can go to the new Clip Recorder menu which can be found as a hierarchical menu under Paste in the Edit menu. If you have to copy large objects and you wish to save the memory for other things but recorded clips, you can switch off the Clip Recorder in the preferences. It helps to read our new introduction to CopyPaste to get an overview of how this fits in with the other clipboard abilities.
Remember: anything you copied or cut in the past is now accessible thru Clip Recorder. This includes if you used a CopyPaste tool (like uppercase) and want to return to the text before using that tool (uppercase) ClipRecorder has your previous version in its stack. You will find Clip Recorder a good friend and a convenient tool sitting in the background recording your clipboard action for later undos.
• Clip Archive
Wouldn't it be nice to have a command that could copy and save highlighted items to a file. Each time you copy an item it gets appended to the end of a storage file. Then you could go on the net and grab item after item easily with no limit on the number of items you collect in the storage file. Later when your disconnected you could open up the storage text file which might contain hundreds of clips that you copied while online. Its easier and faster then trying to switch between two documents over and over, even with 10 clipboards. Select some text, hold down command key, type C and hit the spacebar. The first time you do this a folder called 'CopyPaste Clip Archive' is created on the desktop and within it will be a text file called Clip Archive 0.
Every time you use this command the selected text will be appended to this text file. By adding a number to the command (command c spacebar 4, etc.) you can create up to 10 separate text archives of your copies. Although the text files are created in SimpleText format, they could become to large for Simple Text. But it is easy to open this text file in any word processor and edit and copy the things you need. These files can be deleted any time and new ones can be created. The Clip Archive feature is available only to registered users.
The Utilities Menu has a submenu for the Clip Archive which gives access to the ten archives. One can highlight text anywhere and use the key command or menu to append text to the Clip Archives.
• Tag and Drop
Tag and Drop must be turned on in the CopyPaste preferences. Be aware Tag and Drop uses command keys that could nullify command keys in Pagemaker, Quark and other programs. You can adjust the hot keys differently in the preferences.
We call Tag and Drop the poor man's drag and drop. After selecting what you want to copy or move you have the following options:
1. To copy, hit the control key and click at the destination. Try it out, it's really neat!
2. Clicking with Shift-Ctrl simulates a double click at the destination and replaces the object so double clicked by the selection.
3. Clicking with Option-Ctrl cuts the selection before pasting it at the destination, but note that if the cutting process moves the destination you mean you will end up in the wrong place: therefore think and save your file before using this option. Consider that unlike dragging and dropping, cutting and inserting is two operations and cannot be undone by programs that have only one Undo.
4. Clicking with Shift-Option-Ctrl cuts the selection and replaces the object deleted by simulated double click at the destination.
Using any of these four options without having selected anything will insert the last clip used.
• Multi Paste
You can paste any one clipboard or several at a time. Typing more than one number pastes in the desired order (Command + V + 1 + 2 +3…).
Also typing Command + v + v + v... is possible.
• Application Switcher
Choosing a hot key and turning on application switching in the CopyPaste preferences allows you to switch between open programs. Hold down the hot key and select a program from the list with mouse or arrow keys. Repeating the hot key cycles through the programs.
• Type "Q" to quit a program via Apple Events.
• Typing "I" in the Application Switcher shows process information.
• Typing "H" hides all other program windows.
• Typing "A" (=show All) shows background processes along with the other programs.
• You can quit background processes and even the Finder to free memory by typing "Q"
If you configure the hot key in the preferences in order to use the control key, then typing "I" does not work anymore because the System interprets ctrl + I as the tab key which only lets you cycle forward.
• CopyPaste Palette
Access CopyPaste's 10 Clipboards thru the CopyPaste Palette. You can locate the Palette in three ways: Either select the item "Palette" from the CopyPaste Utilities menu or use the keyboard to type the Copy command Cmd + C and click while holding the command key or type Cmd + c + p. Repeating the command removes the palette.
Each clipboard has a button for Copy and Paste. Initially the palette comes up in maximum size with a content area which shows the clips as you would see them in the submenus in the Edit menu. Clicking in the content area opens the Clipboard Viewer. Clicking in the zoom box toggles its size from maximum to the minimum where you only would see the copy and paste buttons.
If the Palette is zoomed or called by cmd + c + click, then it will always be entirely visible, i.e. it would be moved if you click to low or to near to the right side of the screen in order to fit on the screen.
A few additional buttons are located at the bottom of the CopyPaste Palette. You can use the Trash button to delete all clips. To delete the clips individually option-click on that clip.
Many people requested the ability to load and save different sets of clipboards. We listened, now if you click the Floppy button on the CopyPaste Palette, then you are prompted to save the current ClipSet. Clicking the Open Folder button lets you load an already saved ClipSet. This gives you the option of having different ClipSets which you can load at any time. This also allows you to pass ClipSets to friends who use CopyPaste and on other machines across a network. This feature is only available for registered users. A click on the Clip Recorder button (cassette icon at the bottom) shows the last ten clips which can be pasted with the P buttons.
When the Palette is in its small size (after hitting the zoom box in the top right corner), then clipboards with data will have a gray background and empty clipboards will be white. We added this indicator to let you see which clipboards are empty or full since you can't see the data in the collapsed palette.
• Clipboard Viewer
Use the mouse to pull the Cut, Copy or Paste submenu in the edit menu down to Clipboard Viewer...; click in the close box to close the window or simply type W;
If the CopyPaste Utilities are activated in the preferences, you will find the Clipboard Viewer... command in this CopyPaste Utilities submenu.
In the CopyPaste Window you can see the complete text, the actual picture or hear the sound.
The window menubar contains menus for further navigation and to edit the contents. You will find the datatypes for each clip along with the size at the right side of the menus.
• CopyPaste Menu’s
• "Apple"Menu
The first menu in the Clipboard Viewer contains three items:
- "About CopyPaste"(try the option key),
- this Online Help,
- the preferences
• "CLIP [x]"Menu
Clip x (x = 1 ... 9) allows you to choose the clip to view and edit in the Clipboard Viewer. Choose either by pulling the menu down or by typing a number.
• "Utilities"Menu
The Utilities menu contains the same tools which can be found in the CopyPaste Utilities menu which shows up in the Edit menu of any program if enabled in the preferences. Please find the description in the chapter CopyPaste Utilities and below.
• "Swap"Menu
Swap swaps the open clip with any other one, i. e. it swaps the numbers.
• CopyPaste Utilities
Accessing the CopyPaste Utilities is done via menu or by the CopyPaste palette. To use CopyPaste Utilities menu turn on the item with the same name in the CopyPaste preferences. The CopyPaste Utilities submenu will then be located in the Edit menu of every program. If you highlight a word in your application and choose UPPERCASE from the CopyPaste Utilities menu, then CopyPaste copies the word into the clipboard, makes the word all uppercase and then replaces the highlighted text with the new uppercase text.
If you need one function several times, you can type command + c + e (execute) to repeat the last utility used. The last utility you used is marked with a checkmark in the menu. The utilities are almost identical with those you find in the CopyPaste Window. The functions from the CopyPaste Utilities use the regular clipboard and change its content. The regular clipboard is copied into with command c or command c 0 (so we sometimes refer to the regular clipboard as clip 0). Clipboards 1 thru 9 are untouched by the utilities.
Please refer to the next sections in this online help for more details about the utilities
• "Internal tools"
•"Clipboard Viewer..." In the Clipboard Viewer you can see the complete text, the actual picture or hear the sound..
•"Preferences..." calls the dialog to adjust the preferences. A separate online help is provided in the preferences dialog.
•"Help..." shows the online help.
•"Show Palette" shows a floating window with buttons for the clipboards.
•"Unload Clips to Disk" saves the content of all clips to the disk and frees the occupied memory. This saving to disk is automatic at shutdown and restart if the preference "Save clips thru restarts" is turned on. This function is only available in the registered version.
• "Text tools"
• "Eddress Extractor" - extracts all email addresses on the clipboard just leaving the eddresses, NEW
• "URL Extractor" - extracts all URL's on the clipboard just leaving the URL's, NEW
• "Upper Case" - converts the text in the open clip to upper case,
• "Lower Case" - converts the text in the open clip to lower case,
• "Word Caps" - heads each word in the open clip with a capital,
• "Sentence Caps" - heads each sentence in the open clip with a capital,
• "One Space only" - deletes double spaces from the copied text.
• "Tab->4 Spaces" - converts one tabulator character in the open clip to four spaces
• "4 Spaces -> Tab" - converts four spaces in the open clip to one tabulator character
• "Sort Selection" - sorts return separated text alphanumerically.
• "Comment" and "Uncomment" - are variations of the source code of Symantec’s block comment FKey. It serves to mark text in Pascal source code as comments to the compiler.
• "Special Key" - written by Andrew Welch inserts four Chicago characters symbolizing command key, checkmark, apple character.
• "Picture tools"
The Picture tools are merely for demonstration. Most graphic programs allow more sophisticated functions. But at least the Screen Shot tool could be useful. Programmers could easily add better tools and we would appreciate it to add them to the CopyPaste tools collection. The tool here called Pict to Icon does not create the icons that can be copied and pasted in the Finder but another sort useful to programmers. We hope programmers will create more picture tools for CopyPaste.
• Screen Shot B/W - grab a shot of the screen
• PICT Invert - invert the pict on the clipboard
• PICT>icon - convert the pict on the clipboard to icon size
• Gray it out - convert the pict on the clipboard to gray from color
• Dither to B/W - convert the pict on the clipboard to black and white
• Polygonize - convert the pict on the clipboard to polygons (in testing)
• Reduce to Edge - convert the pict on the clipboard to edges, like outlining (in testing)
• "Date & Time"
• "Short Date insert" inserts the short form of the current date (11. 18. 1995),
• "Long Date insert" inserts the long form of the current date (Saturday November 18, 1995),
• "Time insert" inserts the current time into the clipboard
•"Bahá’í Date " converts the date in the open clip into the date form of the Bahá’í calendar. If no valid date is found in the clip it inserts the Bahá’í date of the day, displaying the English or German or Japanese date form detected. The Bahá’í faith was founded by the prophet Bahá’u’lláh and teaches the unity of all mankind, the unity of religions and the unity of races. See the chapter "About the author" for more information.
• "Misc tools"
• "Save Text or Pict" saves a clip to disk,
• "Open Text or Pict" loads text or a picture into the clipboard.
• "XTND Text Import" allows to import different text formats as long as the Claris XTND system and the appropritate filter is installed.
• "read EPSF file" reads a Postscript file into the clipboard.
• "Archive"
Please refer to the chapter Clip Archive
• "Delete Clips"
From this menu you can choose which clip you want to delete in order to free memory. You could also delete all clips at once.
• About the Author
My name is Peter Hoerster and the reason I embarked on programming was to have the Bahá’í date on my computer. Having acquired a taste for programming, I just continued, and now I can offer you a system extension I hope you will find useful. You may not need the Bahá’í date but it is still there simply because it was the reason behind the whole venture.
I also wrote a search programme for specially formatted ASCII Text. I have many of the world’s religious scriptures on disk and I wanted to be able to find information quickly. This programme is designed to make an index of all chapters and run a complex search through all books, based on logical links. Modern life is complicated, and it is more than just interesting to know the world’s religions’ answers for the problems besetting us all today.
From the beginning of time the light of unity
hath shed its divine radiance upon the world,
and the greatest means for the promotion of that unity
is for the peoples of the world to understand
one another’s writing and speech.
In former Epistles We have enjoined upon the Trustees
of the House of Justice either to choose one language
from among those now existing or to adopt a new one,
and in like manner to select a common script,
both of which should be taught in all the schools of the world.
Thus will the earth be regarded as one country and one home.
The most glorious fruit of the tree of knowledge
is this exalted word: Of one tree are all ye the fruit,
and of one bough the leaves. Let not man glory in this
that he loveth his country, let him rather glory in this
that he loveth his kind.
Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to find out more. Its an area I'm always happy to talk about. If you have access to the internet please visit the Bahai web page at <www.bahai.org>
Peter Hoerster • e-mail: <hoerster@muenster.de>
• Troubleshooting
• What is the Clipboard?
The clipboard allows you to carry data between programs but only certain types are supported, text, pict, style, sound, and movie. Programs can cut and paste there own data types within themselves but other programs must be programmed to accept those data types. Data can be stored in the clipboard regardless of its type or size. The clipboard can hold any type of data but a program must support each type to have it copied or pasted in that program. Apple introduced some common types and recommends that they be supported by a program, i.e. picture, text, movie, sound, style.
• What is the Deskscrap?
Each application can have its own private section of memory for copying and pasting data. When you shift to another application then this private clipboard is shifted/translated to the deskscrap. The deskscrap is a section of system memory that holds data and is available to all applications. CopyPaste can only work with the data found in the deskscrap.
When you copy data to the clipboard like text with formatting and style in a word processor and then paste it elsewhere in the same document you notice that the formatting and style is retained. When you go to another application with the same data you may find that formatting and style disappears and only the text is pasted. This can be due to one or two reasons. It may be because the first application does not allow 'styl' info to be passed to the deskscrap or it may be that the second application does not support receiving 'styl' from the deskscrap.
So if you want a program to support more file types then you should contact the companies that produce those programs.
Fortunately some programs allow to adjust their preferences to support more types in their clips. MS-Word lets you select the use of RTF in the clipboard in their preferences. Some programs won't use the standard deskscrap thus preventing CopyPaste to store their clips. Music programs like Alchemy and other Midi programs behave like this. Please write to the programmers of those applications and ask them to support the standard clipboard with all of their data. It takes no effort for them and requires only a single line of code!
• Some programs create their own MenuDefinitionFunction to enhance the standard menu presentation. Generally if you see more than one modifier (i.e. shift, option, command, ctrl), patterns or special fonts in the menus, the program uses this kind of customized menu drawing function. Most programs will support submenus. Some programs will not. CopyPaste can patch the custom menu with the usual system menu drawing function. If you suspect some problem with the way menus are drawn you can go to CopyPaste's preferences and adjust the setting. The default settings are best but for some programs you may need to adjust these.
• A few extensions may also patch the menu function like CopyPaste does. This may interfere with CopyPaste's actions. Magic Menu from Aladdin crashes if CopyPaste is installed. Write to the makers of these programs if you want to see them work. Programmers love to get feedback on their product and especially like recommendations.
To solve these problems you can do this: First try to put the extension which causes the problem into the extensions folder of your system and rename it with a space character in the front. Then this extension will be loaded before CopyPaste in the boot process. If this does not help, you can disable the Menu Support of CopyPaste in the preferences dialog. If you are not successful in locating the preferences again, you should delete the preferences file "CopyPasteData" from the preferences folder of your system.
• CopyPaste's use of command + tab for application switching may disable command + tab in other applications. You can set a different hot key or disable CopyPaste's application switching in the preferences.
• Some programs like QuarkXpress or HyperCard or Ragtime use the ctrl + mouseclick for their own purposes. For this reason Tag and Drop (which uses ctrl + mouseclick) is disabled by default. You can enable it in the preferences and you can set a different hot key.
• Under a rare circumstance during a system crash the file CopyPasteStore could get corrupted. One sign is inability to restore clipboards through restarts. In this case delete the CopyPasteStore file from your Preferences Folder.
