For those of you who do not remember – or do not care to remember – OpenClip was supposed to be an open framework for implementing the Cocoa NSPasteboard functionality to the iPhone. While I’m thinking that if Apple wanted to implement copy/paste into the iPhone they would have done it already or will do it soon, OpenClip was a noble effort to work around the limitations of OS X on the iPhone.
As Herr Gruber pointed out, OpenClip used a loophole that made it possible for applications to read each other’s sandboxes, thereby creating a temporary repository for paste data. This, however, brings up a fairly big problem – in order to find pasted information, the “paster” has to search the home directories of each application in series and, besides, the 2.1 firmware will no longer allow that.
good proof of concept, but worthless because it would never have worked in safari and email, the two most important programs. Apple better be working on this, I’m absolutely dying without copy paste and it forces me to continue carrying my WM phone
Dare I ask, how do you know it was a she?
More like CloseClip, am I right?
btw, here’s a funny webcomic about Clippy:
http://www.geek...tic-clippy.html
Too bad…
Apple has to provide that Copy & Paste functionality now. We need it, desperately.
I havent had the need for a copy and paste. Am I in the minority?
Yes
on second thought… no
Can someone lend me an iPhone to try this feature?
OpenClip can now be useful as a martyr for the iPhone copy/paste functionality campaign. Are you desperately in need of copy/paste? Polling over at http://www.tinycrunch.com
God, such a hilarious clippy reference! Haven’t seen one of those in a good 15 minutes.
>they would have done it already or will do it soon
Please. People have been saying that they “will do it soon” since they stood in line for the first iPhone!