Introduction to Pasteboards Programming Topics

Explains how to transfer data using pasteboard operations in Cocoa.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

Pasteboard Fundamentals explains how pasteboards work.
Implementing Copy and Paste explains the basics of implementing copy and paste in your application.
Named Pasteboards discusses the ability to name pasteboards to reflect their function and the data they contain.
Data Types discusses the variety of data that can be placed on pasteboards.
Reading and Writing Font Data describes how to work with fonts.
Reading and Writing RTFD Data describes how to work with RTFD data.
Filter Services discusses the ability of pasteboards to convert data from one type to another using filter services.
Providing a Filter Service describes how to create a filter service.