Google Earth / Why Clipboard Monitoring?
Sep 2nd, 2007 by admin
I was playing with the new “flight simulator” feature in Google Earth 4.2 tonight. Great Fun! The kids loved it too. Finally, a use for that Microsoft Sidewinder joystick from the Church yard sale ($1.50)! I had fun buzzing my neighborhood, and of course, trying to navigate! It’s not as easy as you’d think.
As I played launched on Vista, I heard a “pop” from ClipMate. Sure enough, GoogleEarth had inserted itself into the clipboard viewer chain. Why, oh why, must every progam feel that they need to know about anything that the user copies to the clipboard? IMO, GoogleEarth has no business inserting itself into the clipboard viewer chain. Hopefully, they will stop doing this.
This brings up another question: why does ClipMate ”pop” when GoogleEarth (or any other program) inserts itself into the clipboard viewer chain? The short answer is that the new Vista-style clipboard notification fires whenever a new program inserts itself into the legacy clipboard viewer chain. The long answer will likely be the basis for another article…
