bitmap format in clipboard not understood

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Issue migrated from trac ticket # 760

component: old wxOSX/Carbon port | priority: normal

2003-01-31 07:22:54: kasplat created the issue

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Mac OS X appears to transfer bitmap images around in the clipboard as TIFFs, at least that is what Grab and Preview seem to deal with. wxPython isn't able to deal with bitmap data in the clipboard.

For example, copying a selection using Grab and then running the attached clipbmp.py script results in the following errors (wxPython 2.4.0.2 with Python 2.3a1-2 build.

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22:11:09: Debug: C++ assertion "wxAssertFailure" failed in
../src/mac/bitmap.cpp(909): invalid bitmap Got bitmap of size: Traceback (most recent call last): File "clipbmp.py", line 29, in OnDoClip print "Got bitmap of size: ", (bmp.GetWidth(), bmp.GetHeight()) File
"//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib /python2.3/site- packages/wxPython/gdi.py", line 62, in GetWidth val = apply(gdic.wxBitmap_GetWidth,(self,) + _args, _kwargs) wxPython.wxc.wxPyAssertionError: C++ assertion "wxAssertFailure" failed
in ../src/mac/bitmap.cpp(909): invalid bitmap

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2003-01-31 07:24:08: kasplat uploaded file clipbmp.py (1.2 KiB)

shows bitmap problem with clipboard data

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2003-02-02 17:13:20: @csomor commented

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added clipboard support to 2.4 in a binary compatible way