Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?

[MisterX]

Kay,

cut this into pieces...

If you can paste from any app into teachtext, you know your OS is working.
If you can't paste via menu shortcuts, the menus are at fault
If you can't paste via menus, either the menus are not scripted OK (I've
seen it happen) or indeed the clipboard is at fault...

One very simple way to see this:
make a palette stack, with a backscript that has the following:

on resume 
  put the clipboard into fld "clips" of stack "clipboardwatcher"
  put the clibpoarddata["text"] into fld "text" of stack "clipboardwatcher"
  pass resume
end resume

as soon as you "resume" rev, your palette will show the clipboard content.

The same process can be made for the menu shortcut, and the
cutkey/copykey/pastekey messages...

Make a frontscript:

on controlkeydown k (or commandkeydown)
  put k into fld x of stack "mypalette"
  pass controlkeydown
end controlkeydown

on pastekey
  put "pasting detected" into fld x of stack "keyboardwatcher"
  pass pastekey
end pastekey

etc...

That should help you I think... There's sure a "clipboard" window app
somewhere like on MacOS 1.0 that shows you the OS's clipboard content too...
(there was a great Desk Accessory named "Alchemist" too which did what im
saying above plus lots more.

I was working on that but apparently, I can't change the
clipboarddata["html"] as advertised.

We're all in the same boat! ;)

cheers
Xavier



> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kay C Lan
> Sent: Monday, 13 November, 2006 16:08
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Clipboard Anomally [BUG]?
> 
> OK folks, sorry for disappearing for a while but I had to pop 
> out and earn some money to feed the family:-)
> 
> I do have to say though that I'm a little disappointed, 
> especially when I see comments like:
> 
> I wish I could pin down when it fails,
> >
> 
> when I believe I have created a recipe that does just that - 
> although granted if you're on Win and I've only done a Mac 
> recipe I can understand.
> 
> Also, comments like:
> 
> Can you paste via the menu?, and
> >
> 
> then you can switch to another program (other than BBedit or
> > TeachText) and see if you can paste it there. If you cannot, then 
> > perhaps there's a problem with Automator. If you can paste 
> it there, 
> > and it never shows in Rev, you have an engine bug.
> >
> 
> I thought I made it very clear at the beginning with:
> 
> but if you select any other application that
> > handles text and select 'Paste' or the keyboard shortcut, 
> the contents 
> > of your file will be pasted. Going back to Rev and using either the 
> > keyboard or the menu will NOT paste anything into field "Text".
> 
> 
> [or a blank script, or the msg box]
> 
> But just to clarify, other than BBEdit and TextEdit, I can 
> paste the clipboard using the menu or the keyboard shortcut, 
> into: NeoOffice - Wordprocessing, Spreadsheet cell & text box 
> in a Drawing; Stickies; the search field in Google using 
> Safari or FireFox; Mail; the search field in Preview and 
> Acrobat; the Spotlight field in Finder; AppleScript's Script 
> Editor; Terminal; the text entry field of the Dictionary 
> Dashboard Widget; the typing test field of the Keyboard tab 
> of the Keyboard and Mouse Preference Pane. I could test others....
> 
> All I wanted was someone, just one other person, to repeat 
> what I've done, to either confirm what I'm experiencing (a 
> bug) or determine that they don't experience it (then it's my 
> set-up). If it is confirmed then I believe it will help solve 
> the sporadic copy/paste anomalies that have been expressed 
> here, and rather than talk about hacks and work-arounds, we 
> can hopefully get Rev to copy/paste like it should.
> 
> So someone, please, with sugar on top:-) 
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