Clipboard madness

[MisterX]

the problem is that control-m doesn't work most of the time until I click on
the rev menubar... 

in 2.6....

I click on the windows task bar on rev, click on control-m, control-v and it
works (but notice that paste still doesn't get it right). I go back to my
email client, click on an open stack in rev (not the rev menubar), control-m
- doesn't work anymore...

there's no passing of the control key if you have a menubar that doesn’t
handle it while this is a rev-command. This would have never failed in
hypercard as I remember the good old days... 

It's not the "startup rev" sequence where it doesn't work. it's when you
work in rev all day it fails constantly to do the hotkey reliably... My rev
sessions are usually opened for days or weeks managing things at work or at
home... For me, it is the application...

So when you say it's in the active menubar... why does it still not work in
the script editor? There's lots of issues with non-mode-1 stacks too with
this...

cheers
Xavier

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:50 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: Clipboard madness

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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