Text control (copy, paste, word selection) in Girder 3.1 Tre

[Ron]

The XML stuff that you see when pasting is the way that Girder stores the commands in the Clipboard/on disk. So when you press paste while in edit mode Girder will paste whatever text is on the clipboard, being it XML text or just plain text, it does exactly what you asked of it. So Works just fine.

If you want to copy the CAPTION/TEXT of a command use "CTRL-INSERT" if you want to paste the caption you "SHIFT-INSERT". WHILE IN EDIT MODE. If you are not in edit mode Girder will copy the command and thus store some XML.

And the doubleclicking while in edit mode works just fine for me.

So there is nothing that I have to change.

-Ron

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: RonB on 2002-03-31 09:03 ]</font>

[SouthyPar]

When you edit the title of a GroupCommandEventStringWhatever in Girder 3.1 (final), things really don't work right.

Firstly, in rename mode, if you double-click on a word, it will not highlight (select) that word, but instead move out of edit mode.

Now, if you select some text in a command and copy it using Ctrl+v, and then paste it somewhere else, a lot of XML gibberish comes out (the XML content description of the item you have tried to copy text from), instead of just the text you copied.

IE, if I try and copy the word "PowerDVD" from the TopLevel group "PowerDVD", and then paste it into notepad, I get:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Girder><Group Name="PowerDVD" Identifier="10739" Enabled="TRUE"><Comma....

(It goes on for a lot more)

And this isn't surprising, since if you Right-Click on the editable text as you rename an item, the Girder right-click menu comes up, instead of the usual Windows text-edit menu (Undo/Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete/etc...)

Actually, some people might like having immediate access to the XML content of any Girder Item, as opposed to looking it up in their .GML file, so I guess it's not really a bug it's a feature :smile: But please do make it work normally as default :smile:

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: SouthyPar on 2002-03-31 04:52 ]</font>

[SouthyPar]

OIC. The CTRL-INSERT thing does the trick.

Double-clicking to select a word still doesn't work for me, so I guess it's a problem with my OS.

Thanks a lot.