Special/Non-text clipboard sharing

Discussion in 'macOS Virtual Machine' started by Quarfie, Dec 20, 2020.

  1. Quarfie

    Quarfie Bit poster

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    Clipboard sharing is working for text, but I am unable to use it with FileMaker, which uses custom named pasteboards for its objects. Should this work? Is there a way to make it work? I am using Big Sur on the host and Catalina on the guest.

    As a workaround, right now after I copy the object, I run an AppleScript that checks for a named pasteboard matching any of the following names (depending on the type of object:
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxnqgk
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxnxkq
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxnxnq
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxnykk
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxngku
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxngm2
    dyn.ah62d4rv4gk8zuxn0mu

    If one is found, the contents are loaded and then placed on the plain text pasteboard.

    I then have to run a script on the host machine to read the plain text pasteboard, determine the object type by reading the XML, then transfer the data to the appropriate named pasteboard. I can then paste the object into FileMaker on the host machine (or vice versa).
     

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