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Clipboards support
by Spark on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @06:47
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I have just one question: Will Qt3 fix the clipboard?
Atm it is that mouse selections always overwrite my clipboard.
I think it's much neater to store the "Strg+C, Strg+V" clipboard in a different X-Clipboard than the the "Mouse selection, MMB" clipboard.
AFAIK Qt3 WILL handle it this way (like Gtk does already), but I want to be sure cause it is REALLY hard for me to work without it. :) And will it be compatible to the Gtk clipboards? |
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Re: Clipboards support
by Bryan Feeney on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @08:28
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Yes it will, and I'm totally gutted as a result, as I really liked that drag and click method of copying and pasting. Other OS's aren't always better you know...
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Explaination
by Spark on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @08:58
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Maybe you misunderstood me... using two clipboards does not take away any functionality.
See, in Gtk it works like this:
There are two clipboards. I call them CA and CB.
Now if you select text with the mouse, it's always copied to CA and everything there is overwritten.
If you press the middle mouse button, the text is pasted from CA.
If you press Ctrl+C (or use the menu, toolbar) while text is selected, it's copied to CB.
If you press Ctrl+V (or menu, toolbar), it's pasted from CB.
So you can use CA for quick copy and paste (I do most of the time), but if you need something stored longer (i.e. it shouldn't be overwritten if you select something else), then you can press Ctrl+V to store it in CB. Now you can still use the mouse for quick copy and paste with CA, but you can always paste the selection in CB by pressing Ctrl+V cause it never gets overwritten, unless you press Ctrl+C again.
I hope that Qt 3 will have the same functionality!
Everything else is cheap.
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Re: Explaination
by Gary Storla on Sunday 09/Sep/2001, @09:43
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Yes, Qt3 fixes this. This was a long overlooked bug in Qt.
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Re: Explaination
by mike.s on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @02:39
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... and while you're at it: would be nice to have the clipboard content available for motif and java based apps. If I want to paste some text into
JBuilder I always have to middle-mouse-btn-paste it into nedit and then copy it with ctrl-c. Would be nice if there could be a "direct" way ;o)
keep up the good work
Michael
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Re: Explaination
by Peter on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @09:12
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I don't know about others, but for me klipper works as a good work-around for the multiple clipboard problem. No matter how I enter text into the clipboard, I can always get it out later. And the copy history can be set to almost any size. This is definitely one of the most useful applications under KDE!
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Re: Explaination
by Spark on Monday 10/Sep/2001, @09:26
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Hmm yes. Klipper is a workaround, but nothing more.
It's not very comfortable and I don't like to use it. :)
You have to click it, than search the text, etc, instead of just pressing Ctrl+V to enter the text.
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