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From: Lucy24@...
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:00:02 EST
I wanted to make it possible for my users to paste their reg code directly
into the appropriate edit field instead of having to type it in manually (10
characters of pseudo-gibberish). It turned out to involve a lot more pieces
than you'd think--change window type, re-enable edit menu when everything else
is disabled--but the point at which I threw up my hands & said It Isn't Worth
The Trouble... was when I discovered that my FB apps maintain their own
clipboards, independent of what's going on in the shared System clipboard.
(Scrap file. Whatever.)

Now, I definitely didn't do this on purpose--it comes out in all my apps, from
the 15-segment, 10-window monsters right down to the micro-app that barely
fills a window of FB & doesn't even have code for ON EDIT. So the question is,
how and why? Is there a way to give my apps access to the regular system
clipboard without throwing in tons of extra code? Was there something obvious
like a "size" resource flag that I've overlooked?