Re: Watching a pasteboard

FROM : Heinrich Giesen
DATE : Sun Apr 03 17:08:30 2005

On 02.04.2005, at 18:25, Massimiliano Origgi wrote:
> Is it possible to be notified in some way when the contents of a
> pasteboard get changed?

No.

> The only solution so far would be to poll for the change count value,

Yes.

> but clearly it's ugly

No, it's common for a lot of UNIX tasks

> inefficient

No
If you set a timer that fires two or three times per second the
cpu usage is within microseconds. I did so for an application
that permanently observes changes on the pasteboard server
and shows the current contents of the several pasteboards.
For me it worked perfectly


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