Clipboard Object

Looking for how to reference the clipboard object on a Mac through a
browser?

I have an .asp page that I wrote which when you click on a button it
copies text to the clipboard so you can paste it in other places.
Problem is the clipboard object doesn't exists on a Mac? So I need to
figure out how to reference the Mac Clipboard and copy text to the
clipboard through and ASP page.

Hope that makes sense, thanks in advance to any help.

I wrote a paper on OLE and Windows which discussed the clipboard. The
Clipboard is part of the OLE system which includes a two-part connection.
I think is is client-server. Also known as Container - Automation server
if i recall. What you have is a container which is the Clipboard. The
overstructure of these component technologies is ActiveX which is a standard
for object computing and development of interfaces and interpreters that
connect memory to the CPU. If you have any reference to Java for the Mac
this would lead one to think that OLE is Mac compliant. And the Clipboard
is just any container by its own name. Its a shared container for multiple
applications that implement their own features for sharing objects taken off
the Clipboard. If you need a container on a Mac what you can do is find one
there, or use the virtual memory map that other applications use. Memory is
pooled that way on these multi-tasking machines. If not a Java ActiveX
situation you need to use COM which is probably built into the MAC operating
system. Usee some COM component to call a file or a memory manager and put
your memory stores in there. I'm into connected architectures i'm not able
to locate the paper. this is related OLE material.

Related OLE
Some of this information is about issues concerning Superbase LANs and the
uses of file access permissions and OLE programming techniques throughout a
Superbase LAN. An OLE link or embed, using Superbase can be implemented
throught the use of an External data type field. An External data type field
holds a reference nuumber to the embedded object. Superbase can only act as
a host application. From the Clipboard where the server has placed its
embed, use PAste Special from Superbase and that will create the reference
nuumber to the embedded object (use Ext data type with 14 chars in
length)see Dalgleish p. 511-512.

The ramifications of OLE is another subject. Lets takes a look at the
background of OLE that I've looked into in the past, as we can relate back
from Microsoft SQL server toward the Superbase LAN which is another.
Microsoft Windows application. Is has been coming clearer, that Microsoft's
ActiveX is a step beyond the type of implementation which Superbase has
devised for the local LAN database whcih its multiple installation LAN
version offers. Microsoft has reached further with the Internet Explorer
browser, and Active X controls.

Microsoft SQL Server offers the capability to publish real-time information,
and provide interaction and customization for resources made available to
your organization via an intranet. Microsoft SQL Server is in effect a
network operating system, a LAN which allows complex intranet systems
applications. These can be expanded in agreement with Microsoft's "Active
Internet" strategy. This was the strategy that lead to the development of
ActiveX technology which allows usrs to create interactive content using
software components i.e, OLE DB, scripting languages (VBScript), and other
embedded software which operates within HTML pagees. Active X is based opon
OLE controls, and the data sharing that has been facilitated previously by
OLE. SQL Server also provides user and appliation security, data integrity
and concurrency controls, data stream encryption, data replication, and
transparent distributed transactions.

At the basic level OLE offers the ability to integrate a collaborative
effort among the users of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, and
the Lotus SmartSuite suite of applications. This is the TeamComputing
approach, that makes a LAN so useful. A Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet can be pasted
into a Word Pro document (Lotus Word Pro) as a worksheet (Clipboard), or
using the Paste-Special command to paste it as a formatted table or text.
OLE is in fact a feature of windows that allow the sharing of dynamic data
between applications as well.

Borland's 32 bit Paradox 7.0 is less complex than Microsoft SQL Server for a
middle-sized database for intranet database systems. Borland's 7.0 provides
ease of database creation, maintenance, and the dissemination of the
collection of data. The expert wizards help you to create tables, produce
reports or data entry forms, perform mail merges, and to import data from
other sources. The Borland 7.0 system is compatible with other database
technology and it can convert other database files into Paradoix files; in a
file to file exchange.

Borland's Paradox also supports a variety of the major business applicaton
suites that are currently available (Microsoft Office, and Perfect Office).
to facilitate data sharing among a host of applications.Additionally the
Paradox MS Exchange/MAPI support, you have the option of distributing some,
or all of your data, via email. The data email can serve as a fail-safe in
the event of a hardware crash.

Microsoft's "Active Internet" strategy has evolved with corporate
communications in mind. And in conjunction with their "Active Internet"
strategy, Microsoft has invested considerable time, effort, and financial
resources into the development of their ActiveX technology, which is a
robust and impressive mixing of technologies that will allow users to create
and maintain interactive content using a number of software components,
scripting languages (see VB script), and other currently available Microsoft
applications by embedding them directly into either static or dynamically
generated HTML pages. ActiveX is based in part upon OLE controls, and the
data sharing that has previously been facilitated by OLE. Microsoft SQL
Server also provides user and application security, data integrity and
concurrency controls, data stream encryption, data replication, and
transparent distributed transactions.

WordPerfect lets you link or embed spreadsheet, database, and ASCII- or
ANSI- delimited text files as regular WordPerfect text. This seems to
approximate a word-processing special formatting program such as Adobe *.pdf
documents. It seems to be a convenient approach and allows the user to embed
a text file, spreadsheet, database, and ASCII or ANSI delimited textinto a W
ordPerfect document.

TYPES OF FILES
The above paragraphs mention OLE DB, but the question persists for the issue
of what is OLE? As I am browsing on a computer with WordPerfect 10
installed, I looked into the Help Files for the search term "server", What
was returned looks to be an evaluation of OLE, and the Linking and Embedding
properties which it enables.

WordPerfect 10 supports object linking and embedding (OLE). Object linking
and embedding is the process of inserting an object created in one
application (the server) into another application (the client). An object
can be text, a graphic, a chart, a spreadsheet, a sound or video clip, or
any file created by an OLE-compliant application. To share information with
Windows applications created before Windows 95, you must use Dynamic Data
Exchange (DDE) instead of OLE.

In this section you'll learn about:
linking and embedding objects
linking and embedding data created in other formats as regular text
linking and embedding TextArt images
linking and embedding video
linking, embedding and using sound
changing links
updating links and editing OLE objects
changing and hiding link icons

Linking and embedding objects - WordPerfect lets you link and embed objects
from any application registered with Windows as being OLE- or DDE-compliant.
You can also link or embed selected information from a file. When you link
information, it resides in the source (server) file where it was created. It
displays in WordPerfect (the client file) in a graphic frame or as an icon.
If you change the object in the source file, you can update the link in the
WordPerfect file too. Linking is useful when you want to be able to edit an
object in a single location and have the edits reflected in the linked
locations as well. The server application is used to create and edit linked
OLE objects, either in the source application or in WordPerfect. If you want
to edit DDE linked information, the server application must be used.

When you embed an object in a WordPerfect document, it is contained
completely in the document file. The information is copied to WordPerfect
but retains all the properties of the source application. An embedded object
increases the size of a file and is not updated when you make changes in the
source file. Embedding is useful if you want to insert an object and not
have it change when its source file changes. You can embed an object in
WordPerfect by creating a new object or by dragging the object into
WordPerfect. You can embed multiple copies of an object by creating a
Windows scrap file. You can also embed documents located on the Internet in
a WordPerfect file as an object.


Microsoft Personal Web Servers and Microsoft Access -Data AccessPages as
they function as OLE -compliant applications


Some SQL related information, not copied to this file, remains on the other
file located on //SIMONE. The topic of this study is Relational Databases
and networks (Network Relational Databases). Whatever information now here,
which would not later moved to a Superbase topic section will emerge with
more clarity after the present editing. Then the file located on //SIMONE
can be re-edited as well with copy-paste.

Computer Software
The computer's processing unit has a list of instructions built into it by
the manufacturer. The computer software will be used to give the computer
your instructions. Programming languages like BASIC, Pascal, Logo, FORTRAN,
and application programs (for processing words, data, and graphics) written
in programming languages work with and around the computer's built-in list
of instructions. The issue with the chapter "Taking Charge of the Computer"
Radlow p. 104 is software program development. He considers general issues
about programming languages and control structures which tell the computer
which operations to perform in what order. Radlow includes another chapter
about programming languages, Chapter 9 is designed to provide a working
knowledge of BASIC.

In order to use a modern computer you have to learn to use its instructions
set. The computer is a logic machine. The computer is also a general purpose
machine in that it can run several types of programs; it only has to be
reconfigured before it can turn from one job to another Radlow p. 104. The
reconfiguration of the all purpose computer is performed by using software
written in a programming language.

A typical computer software application is a spreadsheet language. It is
used by the general user to keep track of accounts and to plot the course
for business. Two examples of spreadsheet languages are VisiCalc and
MultiPlan. The spreadsheet is the electronic cousin of the paper worksheets,
or ledger sheets used in double entry accounting.

Financial Simulation and Spreadsheets
In accounting. a worksheet or spreadsheet is an extra-wide piece of paper
divided into rows and columns. With it the user can give an organized
presentation of financial data and financial calculations. Spreadsheet
programs put the rows and columns of a large worksheet into computer memory,
and display part of the worksheet on the computer's screen. The part of the
worksheet that is visible onscreen is called a window to the larger
worksheet in memory. There are commands in the program for viewing any of
the screen sized boxes.

Accounting and financial work is done using a spreadsheet because accounting
itself is a way of modeling reality, and the generally accepted principles
of accounting are the most widely used and recognized modeling rules in our
society. Accounting principles have been used to model the framework, of
Pentagon procurement, to find out why it wastes the taxpayers money.

A spreadsheet works with multirow and multicolumn, or two-dimensional,
arrays. This means that the spreadsheet formulas are not restricted to one
row or to one column of data. With a spreadsheet, formulas can refer to one
row at a time, to one column at a time, or to a two dimensional array (a
block) of rows and columns with equal ease.

Electronic spreadsheets are so easy to use, that usually the user does not
perceive that they are in fact spreadsheet languages (languages). Yet they
are langages that can reconfigure the computer even more radically than
other languages are able to do.

Some spreadsheets are able to sort alphanumeric data. With Multiplan, for
eaxample we can alphabetize the NAMES column of the spreadsheet, which lists
names in the vertical column. The rows are then also rearranged at the same
time. A column of numerical data entries listed vertically can be sorted in
ascending or descending order, by the number (1,2,3,4). The rows will again
be rearranged to correspond with the numerical data in the sorted column.
Spreadsheets are especially useful with what-if queries of financial
spreadsheets. This will be discussed in Chapter 13 Radlow, which describes
the use of the spreadsheet for business.

If programming languages are distinguished by the fact that they reconfigure
the computer for new calculations, then spreadsheets can be called computer
languages. They reconfigure the computer so that it will store and
manipulate numbers and text in a large number of onscreen and offscreen
locations. The offscreen locations are in computer memory and can be called
up at any time.

We note that it is also possible to store data and formulas in a number of
different worksheets, each holding 16,065 cells in each spreadsheet, with
links between the related worksheets. Calculations in one of the linked
worksheets affect cell values in all of the others.

Financial Modeling
The trasnsaction-recording functions of an accounting department are not in
themselves accounting. They are the raw materials for accounting. One would
say that transaction records form the database used in accounting.

A firm's accounting department has the accounts receivable and accounts
payable systems. Both of these are computer-implemented. The computer system
records receivables, prints customer statements, controls credit, and
records payments. Payables are amounts owed by the firm. The computer system
verifies these amounts and prints checks for supplies of raw materials,
overhead expense, payroll, taxes, and stockholder dividends.

Accounting is the evaluation of records to show profit or loss, managerial
efficiency or inefficiency,, changes in value, and gains or attrition in
material and immaterial resources.

By balancing these quantities against one another, the accountant builds a
financial model of an enterprise. It is then possible to assess the current
financial status of the enterprise (or institution), its progress toward
meeting its financial goals, and its future prospects. This is done with the
generally accepted accounting principles of objectivity, consistency,
disclosure (that is supplementing data with explanations where necessary),
conservatism, and fairness. For this the accountant must have professional
experience, integrity, judgement, and intuition.

Naturally, the computer is used in storing, processing, and retrieving the
financial data the accountant uses in putting together a detailed financial
model. Accurate, readily retrieved data is fundamental, but the computer is
only now a tool. It cannot be substituted for human judgement in accounting,
any more than it is ablew to be in engineering or science. The spreadsheet
program introduces a new dimension. But it doesn't substitute for human
judgement either. It enables us to use the computer more effectively. Radlow
p. 385

Sppose a manufacturing company's management has been thinking about
automating one of its factories. That will take capital. Raising capital
costs money. How will the cost of raising capital affect profit and loss
statements over the next several years. Radlow p. 386

Each spreadsheet window can be used for another question, and the combined
data in memory is a financial model of the company's situation when and if
it automates the factory see example p 387 Radlow...

The cells in a spreadsheet have a value rule. One of the key ideas of
contemporary software design is to divide the computer conceptually into
smaller computers., or objects. The objects in a spreadsheet program are the
cells. Each active, or value-holding cell in a spreadsheet has a value-rule.
This rule gives the cell the computerlike capability of determining what
type value it will hold (that is, whether the value is to be a number or a
piece of text). It can also determine the relationship, if any, of the
cell's value to values in other cells.

The simplest value rules create static cells, capable only of holding data
that has been entered.

In a government agency, the receivables are the agency's budget. The
payables include funds committed to contractors as well as payroll and
overhead, and omit taxes and dividends.

A system, whether it is a mechanism, an organism, a process, or an
organization, is an assemblage of interrelated elements. The system's
environment is the part of the real world that directly affects the system's
functioning. Any action of the environment on the system is called an
input,; and the reaction of the system is called an output.

An input is transformed into output, the system passes from its original
situation (state) into a next state.

A computer program is a list of instructions, that we have in mind for the
computer to do. Once a program is written as a series of individual basic
instructions that the computer understands, the program is named. Anytime
the program needs to be executed the user can issue just the one
instruction, which is the name of the program.

A step-by-step Radlow p. 109 procedure for solving a problem is called an
algorithm. A program is certainly an algorithm, but an algorithm is not a
program. Not unless it is written in instructions that the computer
understands (basic computer instructions).

Basic Structures
A procedure is an algorithm that functions within another algorithm. The
procedure would be called from within the larger algorithm, which is the
program. The main module of the program, is known as the main module. The
procedure would most likely include a return statement, which takes control
back to the larger algorithm that called the procedure.

Control structres serve as the way to instruct a computer what operations to
perform and in what order. Three types of structures would be:
sequencing
branching
looping

Radlow p. 110 considers the development of algorithms which apply to
sequencing, branching, and looping instructions. By learning to write
algorithms in a pseudo language, you can learn how programming languages
communicate with computers.

Branching
A branching instruction is used after the condition is tested. A computer
processor is built to test, to see if a condition is true or false.
Typically the programmer should debug the program by checking for either of
the outcomes that are expected from the decision. The corresponding control
structure is known as branching.




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