* America Online Macintosh Utilities Shareware Award for 1996 *
* Shareware Junkies Best Mac Software of 1997 *
One of the early wonders of the Mac was its revolutionary ability to do copy and paste across various applications. Unlike other areas in the Mac's system software that have changed and progressed over the years, copying and pasting has not evolved. How many times have you found yourself going back and forth copying in one application and pasting in a different application, wishing to yourself that you could copy 5-10 items at a time, then go to another application and paste each of these items? Now you can, with a vengeance!
To install, drag and drop the CopyPaste application onto your active System Folder. It will tell you it wants to go into the Extension Folder. Hit OK. Restart.
CopyPaste eliminates tedious, repetitive work and increases your ability to get the job done. Below is an overview of everything CopyPaste does. Don’t be overwhelmed by all the descriptions. Don’t try to understand or use everything at once. Just install it and read about the Clip Extender and the CopyPaste Palettes - then try it out a little at a time. CopyPaste will grow on you!
CopyPaste improves the clipboard in many ways. We call these features:
• Clip Extender
‚åò C # (# = any number)
Provides ten clipboards, easily accessed via menu or key command.
• Palettes
‚åò C click, or ‚åò C P
Floating windows that allow you to view/use the multiple clipboards of both the Clip Extender and Clip Recorder. They also allow the exchange of clipboard data via drag and drop with any application which supports drag and drop.
• ClipboardViewer
Click any clip in a Palette
Built into the Palettes, it lets you examine the content of your clipboards by displaying the text or picture, or playing the sound.
• Utilities
Available via the Menus or buttons on Palettes
Convert text, pictures, time and date data in the clipboards.
• Clip Recorder
Click on the cassette icon on the Palette
Remembers up to 200 clips copied via the standard ‚åò C
• Clip Archive
‚åò C space # (# = any number)
Copied data is appended to one of ten text files on disk.
• Save Clipboards thru Restarts
(adjustable thru the preferences)
Allows all ten clipboards to be saved thru a Shutdown or Restart.
• Clip Sets
Set name in title bar, or button on Clip Extender Palette
Ten sets of ten clipboards can be switched using the drop down clip set menu. Each set can be individually named and even saved to disk. Previously saved sets can be loaded or shared with other users.
• Tag and Drop
Off by default (adjustable thru the preferences)
Copy or cut selected text and paste it to a different location with a single mouseclick+hot key combination.
• Application Switcher
‚åò tab (adjustable thru the preferences)
Lets you quickly switch between running applications.
• Drag and Drop
Click and drag to, from or between the Palettes
Lets you drag text , pictures or sound files to any clipboard on the Palette. The Clipboards can also be rearranged using Drag and Drop, but dragging from the Palette is not possible unless the Drag&Drop Helper is running. Drag&Drop Helper is best kept in the Startup Folder where it will launch automatically.
• Clip Append
(Works only with text and the Clip Extender Palette)
Selected text can be appended to an existing text clip by shift+clicking on a C button in the Clip Extender Palette. The text clips are separated by a tab character to allow them to flow into a database table.
More information on all these features can be found in the following chapters and in the online help. The Floating Palette and the Clipboard Viewer require at least System 7.1.
CopyPaste received 5 mice as the winner of the MacUser Shareware Utility of 1996 and also received America Online's Macintosh Utilities Shareware Award for 1996.
CopyPaste is also available for Windows 95 and Windows NT! For information please visit our Web page at http://www.scriptsoftware.com or write to julian@scriptsoftware.com
