copying large string from clipboard is slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[Brian Milby]

Correct - when importing from the system clipboard they are created as needed. When a copy is done inside LC, then all the variants are created and placed on the system clipboard (which is what caused the plain text paste problem originally).

Thanks,
Brian
On Aug 16, 2018, 9:47 AM -0500, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Oh no kidding! I didn't realize that! I thought the clipboard created ALL the key types when it imported, but it makes more sense (more efficient) doing it on the fly.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Aug 15, 2018, at 19:44 , Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > As you can see from the above, the system clipboard only really has 2
> > items, but LiveCode reports 7 different types being available. Anything
> > besides text and html will be something that LiveCode has to generate
> > before providing. I also did a copy in Atom (text editor) and executed the
> > same 2 commands. The 2 lines marked with the (*) are all that is reported,
> > however LiveCode will still make the rest of the list available if
> > requested.
>
>
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