Re: [icon-users] CTRL-C, CTRL-V annoyance

  • From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:12:49 +0100

In article <4745327f52.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> I had a suspicion, so I have just checked it and I can confirm that 
> UniPrint's "UniClip" feature does indeed break the RISC OS clipboard 
> in the way I describe above. This is why I have switched that feature 
> off in UniPrint. I remember discussing this problem with Alan Wrigley, 
> but somehow we did not reach a conclusion back then. It is possible to 
> implement a feature like UniClip without disturbing other 
> applications. The Select ClipboardHolder module does something 
> similar, and that works correctly.

> It is precisely problems like this that prompted David Pilling to make 
> the use of the system-wide clipboard (the "Universal clipboard") 
> optional in OvationPro. Such a step should not be necessary though and 
> I will not do that for EasiWriter. Other applications should obey the 
> protocol.

> So, for the time being, the conclusion is that UniPrint's UniClip 
> feature stops EasiWriter/TechWriter from copying/pasting correctly and 
> I recommend switching UniClip off (can be done in !UniCtrl).

> Martin

Thank you Martin. I had been wondering why OvPro clipboard was only pasting
text - missing out styles, etc.  I hadn't realised OVPro had a switch off
Global clipboard option.

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From KT24 

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.18 

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