On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 23:20 -0500, _why wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:10:44PM -0700, Jeff Hodges wrote: > > I know Shoes writes directly to a canvas which makes this difficult, but is > > there any way to hint that a textblock should be copy and pastable? Or, > > perhaps more accurately, able to be selected by a mouse. I can't seem to > > find anything in the docs and I assume this is one of the as-of-yet > > unsolved issues in Shoes. > > No, there is no copy-and-paste for textblocks. Sadly, it won't be a > part of the next release either. I'm thinking of moving away from > Pango so that I can use each operating system's native text to > accomplish this. > > I think it's interesting that this feature comes up every few months > even though many GUI toolkits have neither good text-flowing methods > nor good copy-and-paste of such text. I don't think NodeBox or > Processing and other drawing kits have it either.
I can't speak for those drawing kits, but in my experience the GUI kits I've used, browsers and most local apps render text to/from the system clipboard cut and my apps support it without me doing anything to enable it. > > Maybe because people see Shoes as closer to AIR and the browsers? > Anyway, I want this feature, too It's a basic expectation for developers. Users can cut and paste between browser windows/controls. I do it often.
