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Sources/MSAECopy.c
// MSAECopy.c |
// |
// Original version by Jon Lansdell and Nigel Humphreys. |
// 4.0 and 3.1 updates by Greg Sutton. |
// ©Apple Computer Inc 1996, all rights reserved. |
#include "MSAECopy.h" |
#include "MSAEUtils.h" |
#include "MSWindow.h" // for DPtrFromWindowPtr() |
#include "MSAESelect.h" |
#include <Scrap.h> |
#pragma segment AppleEvent |
// Handle a copy to scrap e.g 'copy last word of document 1' |
// Note that 'copy last word of document 1 to end of document 2' is a kAEClone event |
pascal OSErr DoCopy(const AppleEvent *theAppleEvent, AppleEvent *reply, long refcon) |
{ |
#ifdef __MWERKS__ |
#pragma unused (reply, refcon) |
#endif |
AEDesc directObj = {typeNull, NULL}; |
TextToken aTextToken; |
short ignore; |
OSErr err; |
err = AEGetParamDesc(theAppleEvent, keyDirectObject, typeWildCard, &directObj); |
// If we get an error here it just means that they haven't supplied a reference to |
// an object to copy - so copy the current section instead. |
if (directObj.descriptorType != typeNull) |
err = CopyDesc(&directObj); |
else |
{ // Just copy the selection of the front window |
err = GetWindowSelection(FrontWindow(), &aTextToken, &ignore); |
if (noErr != err) goto done; |
err = CopyTextToken(&aTextToken); |
} |
done: |
(void)AEDisposeDesc(&directObj); |
return(err); |
} // DoCopy |
OSErr CopyTextToken(TextToken* theToken) |
{ |
WindowPtr aWindow; |
DPtr docPtr; |
OSErr err; |
aWindow = theToken->tokenWindow; |
docPtr = DPtrFromWindowPtr(theToken->tokenWindow); |
if (! aWindow || ! docPtr) |
return(errAENoSuchObject); |
// Set this tokens selection |
err = SelectTextToken(theToken); |
if (noErr != err) goto done; |
err = (OSErr)ZeroScrap(); |
TECopy(docPtr->theText); |
done: |
return(err); |
} |
OSErr CopyTextDesc(AEDesc* textDesc) |
{ |
TextToken aTextToken; |
Size actualSize; |
OSErr err; |
if (typeMyText != textDesc->descriptorType) |
return(errAETypeError); |
GetRawDataFromDescriptor(textDesc, (Ptr)&aTextToken, sizeof(aTextToken), &actualSize); |
err = CopyTextToken(&aTextToken); |
return(err); |
} |
OSErr CopyDesc(AEDesc* aDesc) |
{ |
AEDesc copyDesc = {typeNull, NULL}, |
textDesc = {typeNull, NULL}; |
OSErr err; |
if (typeObjectSpecifier == aDesc->descriptorType) |
err = AEResolve(aDesc, kAEIDoMinimum, ©Desc); |
else if (typeNull != aDesc->descriptorType) |
err = AEDuplicateDesc(aDesc, ©Desc); |
if (noErr != err) goto done; |
switch (copyDesc.descriptorType) |
{ |
case typeAEList: |
err = errAETypeError; |
// We can't handle copying more than one item to the scrap |
break; |
default: |
err = AECoerceDesc(©Desc, typeMyText, &textDesc); |
if (noErr != err) goto done; |
err = CopyTextDesc(&textDesc); |
} |
done: |
(void)AEDisposeDesc(©Desc); |
(void)AEDisposeDesc(&textDesc); |
return(err); |
} |
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