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- Subject: SUBMISSION: Pastry 1.2 -- A Pasteboard Application
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- I'm pleased to announce a publicly available update to Pastry, a
- shareware application that provides 3 basic features:
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-
- - it lets you put any number of items onto the pasteboard instead
- of just one,
-
- - it lets you lock-in the items that you use frequently, such as
- your favorite fonts or your email signature, so they are always
- available for pasting into any application,
-
- - it lets you examine the contents of any item on the pasteboard
- without leaving the application you are working in,
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-
- plus many other features including drag-n-drop to and from the
- pasteboard, unlimited undo/redo, combination of separately-copied text
- items into a single item on the pasteboard, complete online help, and
- localization for English and French.
-
-
- But my description is feeble -- the best way to get the picture is to
- try the fully-functional demo available at the NeXTSTEP archive sites
- listed below.
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- Some of the changes from Pastry 1.1 (July 1994) to 1.2 (September 1994):
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- NEW FEATURES
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- "Refuse to Hide" preference. Causes Pastry not to hide when an
- application's icon is command-double-clicked.
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- "Font Size" preference. You can set the size of the text on the
- buttons, and Pastry uses the Application font set in Preferences.app.
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- New descriptive text on font items. Instead of "Font" it shows the
- font name and point size.
-
- Object Link support improved -- click on the "link icon" in the
- Inspector Panel to open the source document.
-
- Services support improved -- Pastry can accept data returned by
- other apps through services.
-
- Image inspector allows selection of a piece of the image by dragging
- out a rubber band.
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- File inspector allows double-clicking a filename to open a file in
- the Workspace.
-
- InspectorPanel allows selection of a specific type to inspect by
- clicking in the "Types List Inspector."
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- Updated Help.
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- BUG FIXES (several -- these are the most important)
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- Problems working with Data Links and /usr/bin/copy corrected.
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- Two fatal bugs were squashed.
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- You can find Pastry 1.2 in a MAB (Motorola and Intel -- mail me for
- the HP version) Installer package at the following sites:
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-
- currently in
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/Pastry1.2.tar.gz
- probably moving to
- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/next-interface/Pastry1.2.tar.gz
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- currently in
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/platforms/next/submissions/Pastry1.2.tar.gz
- probably moving to
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/platforms/next/Tools/pasteboard/Pastry1.2.tar.gz
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-
- IMPORTANT: Because Pastry is a Multi-Architecture Binary (Motorola
- and Intel) and uses MAB bundles, it requires NeXTSTEP 3.1 or newer.
- (It will work with 3.0 only if you thin the fat bundles). Send me
- mail if you need a copy that is pre-thinned for 3.0.
-
- Pastry is shareware. A single license is $25 -- see the online help
- for registration details. Registered users of previous versions of
- Pastry do not need to re-register to use 1.2. Just grab it from one
- of the sites -- or send me mail if you don't have access to ftp.
-
- Pastry uses a few classes from the MiscKit, the Objective-C kit
- developed by the NeXTSTEP community under the direction of Don
- Yacktman.
-
- Send correspondence about Pastry to davisre@netcom.com (use the
- Suggestion menu option in Pastry).
-
-
- Blissfully,
- Rob
- September, 1994
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