Hi All,
I am having a problem with pasting into text fields or variables on
input forms under Windows. The user clicks into or highlights a text
area that is already populated. They press either ctrl-v or select paste
from the area's contextual menu. The entire existing text block is
replaced with only the new text new from the paste event, even though
they clicked into a specific point to paste into. This only happens
under Windows 7 or 10. Mac clients have never reported this
error/problem at all. I have seen it happen while watching users do
their work and there it is not a PEBCAK issue (_p_roblem _e_xists
_b_etween _c_hair _a_nd _k_eyboard).
I have toyed a bit with On Event Call and trapping for ctrl-v events and
creating a text pasting strategy, but this seems dangerous, especially
on a "system" related event that is better handled by 4D and the host
OS. The other trepidation is that the On Event Call is run in a
completely different process, adding to the complexity of a solution to
trap the event and get the selection from the process containing the
text field. Further, I cannot figure out how to trap for the context
menu paste event.
We are using v14.6 for server and client.
We are moving the system to a more modern version of 4D in a couple of
months, but I need to find a fix or workaround until we can get there...
Has anyone seen this? It truly is frustrating.
HELP and thanks!
Bill Swann
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