clipboard issue in Windows?

[Ralph DiMola]

Don't know if this is a related issue. On Windows at the clipboard in the
IDE GUI acts odd at times. Running XP SP3. Sometimes "Ctrl Insert"/"Shift
Insert" works sometimes not. "Ctrl C"/"Ctrl V" work reliably most of the
time. Sometimes pasting things from the clipboard to the LC IDE from another
windows app works, sometimes not. I put some code on the clipboard in VB6.
It would not paste into LC, BUT I pasted to Windows notepad then again put
the select text on the clipboard from notepad and was able to paste into the
LC IDE??? "Control C" will put selected text onto the clipboard from both
the IDE and the LC Dictionary. "Control Insert" works only from the IDE but
not in the LC Dictionary. Other oddities exist. I think if you're at a
debugging breakpoint the rules of the clipboard change but I don't remember
what happens. I also just the other day used the LC copy to attempt to put
something on the clipboard but it did not work. Thought it was my inner LC
newbie coming out and was going to look at the docs, now maybe not.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11
Cell: 518-796-9332

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Warren Samples
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:47 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: clipboard issue in Windows?

On 11/30/2011 11:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 11/30/11 1:00 AM, Pete wrote:
>> I can see where the confusion comes from on this.  The dictionary claims
>> you can copy a chunk of a control to the clipboard, even has an
>> example  -
>> copy word -3 to -1 of field "Help".
>
> I was wrong, the dictionary is right. Either I was relying on old info,
> or else I lost a synapse somewhere. This works for me too:
>
>    copy word 1 to -1 of fld 1
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           | http://www.hyperactivesw.com


*sigh*

"copy" and "clipboardData" may be unreliable on Linux it seems. The copy 
function and clipboard is complicated in Linux and for some reason the 
KDE clipboard utility, Klipper, does not copy data from LiveCode using 
either "copy" or the clipboardData on my system. It works when Klipper 
isn't running, though.

Warren

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