Toolbox Text area load/save and global clipboard

It would be very helpful if the Toolbox TextArea gadget could support dragging and dropping of text to other applications and the filer and also support the Global clipboard. The free RISC OS Ltd downloaded TextArea supports this and as that is so old I was a little suprised when I was told the RISC OS 5 version doesn’t.

My application, PackIt, has a couple of TextAreas for description and copyright that are much more useful with these additions. I personally tend to use selection drag and drop, but can see how useful the global clipboard would be as well.

I’d rather have this facility available to everyone instead of having to come up with some sort of workaround in my application.

I’d rather have this facility available to everyone instead of having to come up with some sort of workaround in my application.

Quite. If there’s any dialogue at all between ROOL and ROL, I think the Toolbox is a realistic target for amalgamation of sources. Most of the changes are probably at a high enough level not to rely on other, deeper changes in the OS. And the disparity of the Toolbox modules is a real bane for applications programmers (who use the Toolbox; not all, I realise).

The Wimp also needs the text selection thing. I was thinking of doing it this weekend but real life intervened.