Re: monitor the clipboard?

FROM : SD
DATE : Mon Dec 13 03:14:00 2004

Your looking for the functions RegisterEventHotKey and RegisterEventHotKey.

SD

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Previous message from Jim Thomason on 12/11/04 at 3:00 PM -0600
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>Is there a good way to monitor the clipboard from a background
>application? I'd just like to keep track of when the general
>pasteboard is changed.
>
>I've come up with a couple of ideas, which I don't really like.
>
>1) have the app looping and constantly polling the clipboard to see if
>its changed. This would consume CPU. Probably not a lot, but I'd like
>as little as possible.
>2) insert a global hotkey to intercept copy and paste and stick it on
>the clipboard myself. This seems like I'd be asking for trouble.
>
>Ideally, I'd like the equivalent of the Pasteboard pasting a
>"NSPasteBoardDidChange" notification (or something like it) that I
>could just monitor and react to. But I don't believe there's anything
>actually like that.
>
>I saw something in one of the archives about a carbon function to
>intercept these things, but I didn't see a reference as to what it is.
>
>There are apps that do this, so I know it's possible, but I don't know
>the best approach.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-Jim....
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