> Nothing fancy actually. Nice that you didn't have to explicitely code this, a great reminder of the degree that we all stand on the shoulders of giants.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Jaap Karssenberg < jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Paul Evans <gem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Monday, August 18, 2014 20:24:17 hans...@gmail.com wrote: >> > I imagine Jaap's using a pre-existing gtk or python lib to do the >> > render-clipboard-table-as-bitmap, but if he coded it from scratch I >> > wouldn't be too flabbergasted, such a fine piece of work is Zim. . . >> I really was just at the point of sending that email when yours came in >> and I did not know about that feature at all, even though I've been using >> zim for years now. Thank you very much for posting. I always mean to play >> with zim, but never have the time these days -- I just use it to death :-) >> Now I'm curious just how that feature is implemented. >> paul >> > > Nothing fancy actually. Copy-paste in general is a negotiation between two > programs. Zim simply tells the other program that it is able to handle text > and images, the program you pasting from then replies with what it can do. > In this case Libre-calc and Excel themselves are able to render pictures > and support pasting as picture. So zim just gets image content directly. > > As for rendering tables. Yes, there is a long standing feature request. > The new "embedded objects" code in the latest release will allow to built a > simple version quite easily - e.g. just rows and columns - but full > support with table spans etc. is still some more work. > > Regards, > > Jaap > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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