Re:Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?
by com2kid on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @02:47PM
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OLE is an awesome tech that I am sad isn't more widely used. The idea of being applications being portable toolboxes that can be embedded inside of other applications is just so cool. I remember embedding, IIRC, Print Shop Pro media inside of Word and when I clicked on the graphics the PSP UI appeared! Well after 10-20 seconds of hard drive thrashing it appeared, and then operated at about 5 fps.
Cool idea though!
Way back in the 90s, it was possible to put any (+) document inside any sufficiently aware app or document with OLE ("object linking and embedding")
The (+) indicates that there were a lot of terms and conditions applying to this, but you could actually just put an excel spreadsheet in a word document, and it would run a small copy of excel inside word. This is why the original word save format is so horrendous - it's serialized binary objects.