SmartBoard 2000 V2.50 Windows ClipBoard Extender
WINDOWS DEC 99 CLIPBOARD CUT COPY PASTE 95 98 NT
FILES: SB2K250

Author: Colin Messitt  (Oakley Data Services)
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SmartBoard is a "Clipboard Extender" for Windows 95/NT. The 
normal Windows Clipboard can only retain a single item at a 
time - as soon as you copy a second item on to the Clipboard 
you lose the first one. With SmartBoard running that is no 
longer true, SmartBoard retains multiple "Clip Items", even 
across a Windows restart, and allows simple pasting back of 
any of them into any application. 

SmartBoard runs as an invisible task in Windows - there is 
no icon cluttering up your desktop - but simple mouse-clicks 
or hot-keys pop SmartBoard up on top of your current 
application allowing you to select the "Clip Item" you want 
to paste, and then disappears out of the way again having 
pasted it into the current application automatically - you 
don't normally even need to use the application's paste 
command. Using Smartboard is a complete no-brainer, you just 
pop it into your Start-up group and forget it until you need 
it. It appears almost "built-in" to the operating system 
itself.

The unique Paste-Anyplace(tm) popup menu can appear on top of
the application your are currently working with, giving
instant access to all your captured (and manually created)
clip-items in a menu structured after your design of 
categories and subcategories. Select what you want and it
pastes straight into your application. No need to switch
back and forward between your application and your clipboard
extender like other products. The ability to give nicknames to
items and password protect cateegories makes it the ideal 
place to keep userids, passwords, credit card numbers, website
URLs and more, just a couple of key-presses away!

SmartBoard supports all clipboard formats, and allows you 
to configure it in exactly the way that works for you. You 
can specify what clipboard formats to capture, from what 
programs, limit captures to items under a specific size and
specify preferred formats from particular programs. For 
example you could specify that you want to capture both
Rich Text Format and plain Text from Microsoft Word, and 
the Lotus compatible XL1 format from Microsoft Excel, but 
only if it is less than 50K in size.

The modern interface looks much like File Manager or the 
Win95 Explorer, with a set of user-definable categories down 
the left side, and the content of the currently selected 
category on the right. In the case of text items the first 
few characters are shown, Bitmaps and Metafiles show as 
thumbnails and other data gives capture details. 

You can assign nicknames to any of the items to help 
identification, and you can "zoom-in" on an item for a closer 
look by right-clicking. Zooming in on text presents a pop-up 
window showing the first few lines complete with formatting 
(tabs/line breaks etc.), zooming in on graphics shows them 
full-size. A unique "plug-in viewer" interface allows the 
development of zoom-in capability for any other Clipboard 
format, and we supply plug-ins to support the RIFF Wave format
(for copying sounds), the RTF format (used by WordProcessors) 
and the "File-List-Handle" format (integral to the Win95/NT
explorer. The interface is open and we supply sample source
code to help other developers.

A system-wide hot-key facility allows you to associate a key
combination with a particular item, then whenever you press 
the key combination the associated item is automatically 
pasted into the current application. Or you can paste up and
down lists of items using hot-keys.

You can move items around between categories using Drag 'n
Drop, and append multiple text items together. Items can
be edited, printed or copied to file. In the case of Text
items a "template" capability allows the user to create
"boilerplate" items with variable fields that can either be
updated automatically (dates/times etc.) or by the user 
specifying the required replacement data via a dialog box
at paste time.

All the usual elements of a modern Windows application, such
as toolbars, fly-by and context sensitive help are included
making SmartBoard easy to use.

  
Requires: WINDOWS 95, 98 or NT.
