It is false by default because it appears not to work as one would hope under older versions of Mac OS. This is what the encode attribute is for. On the other hand, it is (or at least may be) convenient to get the text types encoded and decoded properly off the pasteboard. For example, if you store some data on the pasteboard as flavor 'public.jpeg', it is up to you to make sure that the data are, in fact, a valid JPEG image. In plainer English, it is up to the user of this module to ensure that the specified flavor is actually appropriate to the data it is used to describe. This module is in general ignorant of the semantics implied by the system-declared flavors, and makes no attempt to enforce them. If your interest is in writing a droplet (that is, an application that processes files which are dropped on it), see the droplet documentation. Until I upgrade, this package can only access the first item. An approximation of the old factoring (with less chance of getting character encoding/decoding correct) can be had by specifying the -p option to Makefile.PL or Build.PL.īeginning with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, pasteboards could contain multiple items. But this turned into a complete refactor. Note that release is an attempt to properly encode/decode everything going to and from the pasteboard.

Or equivalently, using the object-oriented interface, use Mac::Pasteboard To acquire text from the system clipboard, replacing it with your own: use Mac::Pasteboard Mac::Pasteboard - Manipulate Mac OS X clipboards/pasteboards.

Command line clear clipboard mac os