Archive for July 2nd, 2009

02
Jul

Tutorial: UIPasteboard

Yet another not quite as thorough but still worth a gander 3.0 tutorial over on Mobile Orchard today, Copy & Paste With UIPasteboard:

There are two system pasteboards: a General system-wide pasteboard that’s used for copy-paste operations and a Find pasteboard that holds the last search string.

Additionally, applications can create their own pasteboards that can be used by other apps. For example, a point-of-sales app and a credit card terminal app could use a shared pasteboard to pass payment details back and forth…

Fairly straightforward stuff, especially if you’ve delved into NSPasteboard on the desktop … but since we actually never had any particular reason to do so all that deeply, it was still a worthwhile read!