[Request/Idea] Binary Clipboard Object

[Dines]

An object to access Binary Data from the clipboard.

That'd be groovy, especially if it could be Vitalised. I had hoped back in MMF1.5 to make a web plugin that could display Events as they're shown in MMF (for use with forums, articles, tutorials, etc). The idea was to add a 'Copy to Clipboard' feature to the applet, so you could copy and paste the code from the web plugin straight into an open MMF application.

But with no ability to check the Binary contents of the clipboard, I can't really analise how MMF's copy and paste works, so the idea's a dead duck.

[Sphax]

A Vitalize! extension which can access to the Windows clipboard should be prohibited since it could be a major virus hole or a gate to get some private datas.

But I dream about an extension (or maybe a functionnality of MMF2) which can store various data that can be used by all extensions. For exemple from overlay we'll be able to get image from the clipboard, actives, iconview, active picture, and other things with ease. I think it only can be a functionnality of MMF2 which imply an update of the SDK...

[neat_Kliker2]

"But I dream about an extension (or maybe a functionnality of MMF2) which can store various data that can be used by all extensions. For exemple from overlay we'll be able to get image from the clipboard, actives, iconview, active picture, and other things with ease. I think it only can be a functionnality of MMF2 which imply an update of the SDK... \:\)"
Damm right, this was what I was suggesting in the other forum, it would be awesome but the downside is that people would be able to change scores and lives in games and other vitalize applications :/

About the clipboard: if it only writes to the clipboard then that is OK, but if it reads from it then it could be considered a rogue application

[Sphax]

Why do you say that it could be let users edit there scores ? It's two different things...

What I speak about is like a pipe. With this pipe creators will be able to transfers data between extensions. Two extensions that manipulates graphics will be capable to share there pictures and it's the same way with strings, int, bin...

About "dangerous" extensions or functions in Vitalize! it could be nice to activate some of them and add a non controllable message (by developers) before the start of frame that warn users about the functionalities which could be used by the application.
This kind of message should be in Vitalize! plugin and should be displayed only if application is loading some specific extensions.

Flash can write and read some files on the hard drive, so why not Vitalize!...

[Dines]

I think writing to clipboard would be fine for what I had in mind. Reading would only be necessary to find out what format MMF copies and pastes events and objects in, and I can do that with a non-Vitalized application.

Once I knew that, I could just use a limited vitalized version of the object to copy data in that format. It wouldn't need to read.

[Joshtek]

I agree that better clipboard support would be great. Jamagic allows for you to use binary data and use multiple clipboard "layers" (not sure of official terminology).