clipboard integration of the hosted OS window on Mac OS X

[darvin]

clipboard integration of the hosted OS window on Mac OS X

[dbalsom]

I do not currently have clipboard integration on any platform, although it is planned.

I do not plan to support selecting text directly from the emulated display. I will likely add a debug window that will show a text representation of video memory for the current screen where you could copy the characters from.

[darvin]

I do not currently have clipboard integration on any platform, although it is planned.

id like to implement it - with your design if you'll share the details

I do not plan to support selecting text directly from the emulated display.

it is supported by Turbo Pascal and by Norton Commander - their internal text selection

I will likely add a debug window that will show a text representation of video memory for the current screen where you could copy the characters from.

oh that's great! that would allow to skip OCR altogether and just do heuristics for selection

[dbalsom]

I do not currently have clipboard integration on any platform, although it is planned.

id like to implement it - with your design if you'll share the details

egui has a clipboard integration feature, I just need to enable it

it is supported by Turbo Pascal and by Norton Commander - their internal text selection

I'm sure you can select text in various dos programs, but there's no standard dos 'clipboard' so if you copy text in turbo pascal it likely gets copied to memory in a completely different location than if you copied text in Norton commander. I would have to add a bunch of hacks for each program to access each program's clipboard, and it could even vary from version to version, just doesn't seem practical. I think the video memory viewer is a more universally 'useful' option. I could also implement LPT to clipboard so you could copy printer output, on printscreen, for example

oh that's great! that would allow to skip OCR altogether and just do heuristics for selection

yeah there's no real need to do OCR, in text mode , the characters are in memory, they're just turned into pixels. If you really wanted to make a text selection mode, you could, you'd just need to detect you're in text mode and calculate the right screen offsets based on CRTC registers and then you could map the mouse cursor to character cell. I just think a special window is a bit easier to implement.

[dbalsom]

The clipboard has been enabled in branch 0.1.3

[dbalsom]

took me a while to get around to this, but there's now a text mode viewer you can copy text out of