What's purpose of this code

[Patrick Robertson]

I just got a hang on this line of the code: [1]

The hang was from calling LSCopyItemInfoForURL()

I was looking at the if statement and what it does, but couldn’t figure out the purpose of it. It seems to be for text clippings/web clippings etc. but the corresponding code never gets run ([2]) because [pasteboard types] always returns an empty array, so that for loop never gets run.Can anybody figure out the purpose of this code, and in what situations it might get run? Short of that, I’ll just remove it and hopefully fix a hang :S

[1] https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/blob/master/Quicksilver/Code-QuickStepCore/QSObject_FileHandling.m#L574

[2] https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/blob/master/Quicksilver/Code-QuickStepCore/QSObject_Pasteboard.m#L92

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[Rob McBroom]

On 11 Sep 2015, at 8:11, Patrick Robertson wrote:

> I was looking at the if statement and what it does, but couldn’t
> figure out the purpose of it.

Just from the names of the methods, I think it’s trying to get the
string value of the text in the clipping so you can use it with all the
text actions.

> It seems to be for text clippings/web clippings etc. but the
> corresponding code never gets run ([2]) because [pasteboard types]
> always returns an empty array, so that for loop never gets run.

It’s always empty? Seems like it’s supposed to get populated by
`pasteboardByFilteringClipping:` in NSPasteboard_BLTRExtensions.m. Have
you tried stepping through it?

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