OpenClip.org Offers Copy and Paste for iPhone Across Apps

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/20/openclip-org-offers-copy-and-paste-for-iphone-across-apps/

Many will remember Proximi's MagicPad [App Store] iPhone application which was the first to offer a 3rd party notepad application for the iPhone with copy and paste functionality. Of course, due to the constraints of the iPhone SDK, Promixi was only able to provide copy and paste functionality within their own application.

Promixi, however, took it a step further and proposed an interface for system-wide copy and paste on the iPhone. While Apple has acknowledged that iPhone copy and paste is in their plans, it has simply not been a high enough priority for them.

Student developer Zac White has since taken matters in his own hands and founded a non-profit, open source, community project called OpenClip which is offering iPhone developers a free Copy and Paste framework that will add this functionality to their applications. This will allow copy and paste functionality between supported applications.

OpenClip accomplishes this feat while still following the rules of Apple's SDK. iPhone applications are allowed to read from other application's files but only write to their own. By creating a standard location for each application's "clipboard", applications can "copy" by simply saving data locally and "paste" by pulling the most recently saved data across all applications.

A demonstration of the OpenClip is shown in GeekBrief.tv video with early versions of Twittelator [App Store], WordPress [App Store], and MagicPad [App Store].

These same developers have OpenClip-supported versions coming soon with others pledging support. Developers and users can find more information at OpenClip.org.

thats pretty cool. i wonder how old that guy is....it says he is a student. he is doing it not for profit.....thats interesting.

he's probably looking for Apple or someone to hire him because of this.

hopefully apple is working on their own copy-and-paste

this is pretty cool

i'm sure apple will make their own copy and paste

yea, i think they will, there's no reason not too

and this should make them put it in the next release, or at least soon

yeah, since other people are already doing it

yeah, i don't see Apple leaving this version out there. they will want there own version, so they have control over it

yeah, i know

yeah, copy and paste will hopefully come in the next firmware update

yeah, that would be great

maybe sept 9th?

hey i think they would

we'll find out soon

yep, very soon, i think they really would along w/the update to fix the passcode problem

we'll see

hmm

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