copy/paste shortcuts

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Is the copy/paste situation supposed to get fixed in Rev 3?  It is  
> still very undependable in the 3.9 beta and 2.8.1.  Inconsistent  
> even from the menu, but command-c, command-v seems to work only very  
> rarely.  Muy frustrante.

I believe the issue of shortcut keys not working can be traced to  
situations where the engine becomes confused about a) the  
focusedObject or b) the selectedField.

In a current project I have been monitoring the focusedObject and the  
selectedField while working in the IDE and have found situations where  
they do not report expected values. When this occurs it appears  
messages are not sent to the appropriate objects (or not at all) and  
this causes shortcut keys to not work properly.

Some reports I filed:
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5692
http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5497

Both are marked as fixed in dp-3 but there are still situations that  
confuse the engine. Creating fields in groups is a great way to  
confuse the engine as that is where almost all of the issues I see  
arise from. I imagine there are other ways as well.

If the copy/paste issue you are seeing is in fact related to what I  
described above then the folks at Rev are aware that there is still an  
issue in the engine even though the above reports are marked as fixed.

Regards,

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
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