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.
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