Steve Fryatt  wrote on 5 Apr:

> This isn't a NetSurf problem.

> The URL bar is just a standard Wimp writable icon (I think; I'm open to
> corrections), and so Ctrl-V into it is handled by whatever you use to handle
> the clipboard in writable icons on your system.

> You still haven't given us an OS version (unless I've missed it; I'm
> catching up after a weekend down south), but I'll guess one of ROL's later
> offerings with writable icon clipboard support. In which case:
> congratulations, I think you've just found one of the "features".

i'm using OS 4.39 on a StrongArm RiscPC.  Publisher 5.13 or 4.13.
*help clipboardholder shows it's version 0.15 (2004-05-03), which as 
far as i know is the standard one that comes with OS 4.39.
Netsurf r9799.


> Looking very cursorily at what messages get passed around when you do a
> Ctrl-C in Impression on a RO4.37 machine, it appears that the Clipboard
> Holder doesn't play with Impression.  Draw exhibits a similar 'issue',
> because it uses the Clipboard Holder; I'd guess Edit would, too (but I can't
> find a copy to try at present).

well, Clipboardholder plays with Impression to the extent that i can 
copy (Ctrl-C) from Impression and paste (Ctrl-V) into Edit, Datapower, 
OPro, Techwriter, MPro, and even Draw's "Ctrl-E" box for editing text, 
and, curiously, into a text-input box in Netsurf -- but NOT into 
Netsurf's URL bar.
   like Richard Porter, if i paste my bit into Edit, then re-copy 
(Ctrl-C) it from Edit, then i CAN paste (Ctrl-V) into the URL bar.

to repeat: the bit of text copied out of Impression with Ctrl-C 
carries filetype TEXT, not Impdoc.  (correct me if i'm wrong.  i come 
to this conclusion by pasting by bit into a blank Edit page, which 
takes on filetype Text.  if you paste something of another type into a 
blank Edit page and then save, Edit assigns it that filetype.)


i have now installed IcnClipBrd (version 0.15 by Thomas Leonard and 
Steve Fryatt, 2009) and now i CAN use Ctrl-V to get my bit of text 
from Impression into Netsurf's URL bar.


i'm still curious about the wherefores of this odd stumblingblock 
involving Impression, the built-in Clipboard Holder and the URL bar.
how can we examine the internal details of what's actually on the 
clipboard?


-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk

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