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In article <6875@apple.UUCP> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>This means that your picture is going into the clipboard, but Multifinder is
>not telling the other applications about it.  
>
>I think the solution would be to call SystemEdit with a parameter of 3
>(=Copy); as long as your application window is frontmost, SystemEdit will
>return FALSE (it won't tell a DA to do the Copy), but Multifinder will think
>that a Copy has been done.  
>
>I don't have any documentation that indicates whether this is the "right"
>thing to do.  I thought that I had read something about this, but now I
>can't find the reference.
>
Unfortunately, there really is no clean way to do this right now.  Calling
_SysEdit as explained above will work, but a safer way is to call
_MenuKey(cmd-C), assuming of course that your app has an Edit menu with cut,
copy, etc. items.  This way you don't have to worry about any possible side
effects on DAs.

The reason all this is necessary is that it was determined that copying large
handles from application to application during layer switches caused too
great a performance hit.  Therefore, the clipboard is only copied when MF
senses that the user has changed it.  We realize that this causes a problem for
application-generated changes and we hope to provide a standardized method for
doing so in the future.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer