Pasting images: purity or usability?

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Any chance that this issue is related to bugzilla 

http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2353

Tuv couldn't reproduce it and i keep having the problem anytime i
try. Seems engine related more than GUI...

cheers
Xavier

On 17.05.2005 11:38:34 metacard-bounces wrote:
>There's an outstanding request to fix an issue in the engine with regard
>to pasting images:
>
>Currently, pasting an image from the Clipboard causes one
>of two things to happen:  either the image is pasted into
>the bottom-most image object, or if there are no image
>objects it creates a new image sized to match the entire
>card.  It's rarely the case in my own work that either is
>what I want. :)
><http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2473>
>
>While RunRev hasn't taken the time to address this in the engine, they
>did take the time to implement a workaround in their IDE's Edit menu:
>
>if the clipBoard is "image" and the selectedImage is empty then
>lock messages
>lock screen
>create image
>put the clipBoardData["image"] into last image
>unlock messages
>unlock screen
>put true into tObjects
>choose pointer tool
>select last image
>
>So at least their IDE works, even if users will be confused when their
>standalone behaves differently.
>
>The question for us is whether we should maintain the purity of the MC
>IDE by using the engine's Paste command as it does now, or favor
>usability by implementing the workaround script from RR.
>
>I'd like to say be able to report that we can expect a fix on this soon,
>but it's been outstanding for half a year so I think if we want this it
>it may not be productive to wait for the engine to catch up with us.


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