Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

Martin Baxter mb.userev at harbourhosting.co.uk
Fri Nov 10 18:57:44 EST 2006


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Chipp Walters wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I find copy/paste clipboard issues always occur when launching
>> Rev. Rev seems to always start with a clear clipboard on XP. I don't have
>> the same problem with copy/paste text in other apps.
> 
> I restarted WinXP, copied some text in Notepad, closed Notepad, reopened 
> Notepad, and pasted. It worked. Then I relaunched Revolution, made a new 
> stack with a field, and pasted. And that worked too. So it isn't 
> consistent. Today's test seems to show that Rev doesn't automatically 
> clear the clipboard.
> 
> I wish I could pin down when it fails, because I have a standalone with 
> a registration dialog that users paste a serial number into. If they 
> copy the serial from an email and launch my app, it only pastes 
> sporadically. If the dialog is already open when they flip over to email 
> to copy, it pastes every time.
> 

I dunno either, but some time ago when I was experimenting with a linux 
version of my app, I found that keyboard shortcuts for menu items in 
general failed on that platform, so I included a commandkey handler in 
the card script, and that worked reliably. Just thought I'd mention it.

Martin Baxter



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