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CBD_POST -- Post availability of a clip to the clipboard.
Indicate to the clipboard device that data is available for
use by accessors of the clipboard. This is intended to be
used when a cut is large, in a private data format, and/or
changing frequently, and it thus makes sense to avoid
converting it to an IFF form and writing it to the clipboard
unless another application wants it. The post provides a
message port to which the clipboard device will send a satisfy
message if the data is required.
If the satisfy message is received, the write associated with
the post must be performed. The act of writing the clip
indicates that the message has been received: it may then be
re-used by the clipboard device, and so must actually be
removed from the satisfy message port so that the port is not
corrupted.
If the application wishes to determine if a post it has
performed is still the current clip, it should check the
post's io_ClipID with that returned by the CBD_CURRENTREADID
command. If the current read io_ClipID is greater, the clip
is not still current.
If an application has a pending post and wishes to determine
if it should satisfy it (e.g. before it exits), it should
check the post's io_ClipID with that returned by the
CBD_CURRENTWRITEID command. If the current write io_ClipID is
greater, there is no need to satisfy the post.
IO REQUEST
io_Message mn_ReplyPort set up
io_Device preset by OpenDevice
io_Unit preset by OpenDevice
io_Command CBD_POST
io_Data pointer to satisfy message port
io_ClipID zero
io_Error non-zero if an error occurred
io_ClipID the clip ID assigned to this post, to be used
in the write command if this is satisfied
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