Clipboard madness

[Alex Tweedly]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

> I wrote ...
>
>>You may have decided that because of a bug whereby the IDE would not 
>>cut/paste unless (or until) there was a script editor window open. Sorry 
>>    
>>
>>don't know the bug number and a (very) quick search didn't find it. But 
>>it is fixed in 2.6 !! so give it a try now.
>>    
>>
>
>No, this is definitely not fixed! Not in 2.6, not in 2.62...
>
>  
>
*This* definitely is fixed; there may be (in fact, clearly there are) 
other related or similar problems that are not fixed - but the one I was 
describing is definitely fixed.

Here's a recipe which reliably works in 2.6, and reliably fails in 2.5 
and 2.2

Go into an editor - any editor - and copy some test into the clipboard.
Start up Rev
Hit Ctrl-M to open message box
Hit Ctrl-V to paste.

Fails every time in 2.5, works every time in 2.6

In 2.5 you could open (and then close if you wanted) a script editor and 
pasting would *sometimes* then work.

>The trick is that if the menubar which is currently active doesn't have a 
>copy 
>command, it wont work - so yes you have to script that but even in the 
>script 
>editor which is the active window and which has this copy command, 80% of 
>the
>time, i have to "activate the menubar" or it wont work even though i am 
>working
>in that field! Same for comment scripts, etc...
>  
>
In my problem / description / recipe, the active menubar is the main 
menu bar, which contains the copy, paste commands.

>We know, you should waste half an hour reseting your preferences - but 
>that's 
>useless, the problem comes back again in less than a week...
>
>The real trick for missing copy/paste commands is to click once in the 
>menu 
>of the script editor or the revmenubar and THEN the menu shortcut will 
>work 
>(is that the fix in 2.6 you're refering to?)! 
>
>  
>
Nope - see above.

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net

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