Introduction

A pasteboard is a standardized mechanism for exchanging data within applications or between applications. The most familiar use for pasteboards is handling copy and paste operations. A number of operations are supported by pasteboards, including dragging and application Services.

You should read this document to understand how to use pasteboards.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

• “Getting Started with Pasteboards”

• “Pasteboard Concepts”

• “Copying to a Pasteboard”

• “Reading from a Pasteboard”

• “Custom Data”

• “Integrating with OS X v10.5 and Earlier”