On Monday 27 February 2012 03:44:45 Edward Hennessy wrote: > All, > > I discovered a couple problems with the clipboard: > > Problem 1 > ~~~~~~~~~ > > There is a problem with the clipboard paste operation when using the > new Ubuntu style menus in 10.10. The menus are at the top of the > screen instead of the top of the window. When selecting the paste > operation from the drop down menu, the operation will fail if the > cursor is outside the schematic window. If the window is positioned > under the drop down menu, so that when the cursor lies within the > window when the paste operation is selected, the operation will > succeed. In older versions with the menu at the top of the window, > the cursor would always fall within the extents of the window and > succeed. > > In the system-gschemrc file, the paste operation always calls the > hotkey version: > > (,(N_ "_Copy") clipboard-copy > clipboard-copy "gtk-copy") (,(N_ "_Paste") > clipboard-paste-hotkey clipboard-paste-hotkey "gtk-paste") (,(N_ > "_Delete") edit-delete edit-delete > "gtk-delete" ) > > In the hotkey paste operation, inside file i_callbacks.c in function > DEFINE_I_CALLBACK(clipboard_paste_hotkey), the function abandons the > operation if the cursor is outside the extents of the window: > > g_return_if_fail (w_current != NULL); > > if (!x_event_get_pointer_position (w_current, TRUE, &wx, &wy)) > return; > > object_list = x_clipboard_get (w_current); > > I changed the clipboard-paste-hotkey to just clipboard-paste for the > menu and it seems to work, but requires an extra click inside the > window for the initial position of the item to paste. > > Does this change work for everyone?
Is there any way to remove the requirement for an extra click? That's
definitely isn't the behaviour most users would expect.
> Problem 2
> ~~~~~~~~~
>
> For the proposed changes in 1.8 allowing the clipboard alternate
> formats such as plain text in addition to
> application/x-geda-schematic.
>
> This problem occurs when running gschem in a guest O/S on VMware
> fusion with clipboard sharing functionality enabled. When
> advertising clipboard data in both formats, VMware will recognize
> the text, retrieve the text data, and take ownership of the
> clipboard. The ability to paste application/x-geda-schemaic is lost.
>
> Not sure of the perfect fix, but not advertising plain text, and
> disabling the VMWare tools on the guest O/S both fix the problem.
This is definitely a bug in VMWare. Advertising plain text is required
to allow people to paste schematic data into e.g. a text editor.
Either way, please submit both of these as "proper" bug reports!
Peter :-)
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Peter Brett <[email protected]>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
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