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--Kyle Sluder [not the moderator]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Brian Postow <brian.pos...@acordex.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if ImageKit is more correctly a cocoa thing, or a Quartz thing, 
> so I'm asking this in both places. Sorry for the duplicate, If the question 
> is inappropriate in one or the other list let me know and, well I guess I 
> can't delete from a mailing, list, but I won't send more ImageKit questions I 
> guess...
>
> I'm trying to use the select and copy feature of the IKImageView. If all you 
> want to do is have an app with an image, select a portion and copy it to the 
> clipboard, it's easy. You set the copy menu pick to the first responder's 
> copy:(id) method and magically everything works.
>
> However, if you want something more complicated, like you want to copy as 
> part of some other operation, I can't seem to find the method to do this.
>
> IKImageView doesn't seem to have a copy method, it doesn't seem to have a 
> method that will even tell you the selected rectangle!
>
> I have gone through Hillegass' book, so I understand how the clipboard works, 
> just not how to get the portion of the image out of the view...
>
> Now, I'm starting to think that I made a mistake in basing my project on 
> IKImageView, but it's what Preview is built on (or so I've read), so I 
> figured it had to be stable... and anyway, now it's too late, I'm too deep in 
> this to start over...
>
> So, other than not using IKImageView, any suggestions on how to copy the 
> select region to the clipboard manually?
>
> Brian Postow
> Senior Software Engineer
> Acordex Imaging Systems
>
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