Windows clipboard not available in the IDE?

[msteinhoff]

I can copy and paste between Basic4android IDEs (i.e. works locally in the IDE, and between multiple running copies of the IDE), but am unable to copy to/from the Windows Clipboard.

I can work around it by saving to files and opening them (but that's kind of clunky).

Development system is running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Erel]

I'm also running Windows x64 here and it works fine. Never encountered any issue with the clipboard.

Where are you trying to copy from?

 

[msteinhoff]

I sit here sheepishly --- after rebooting the PC I'm able to cut and paste between Ultraedit and Notepad and the IDE without a problem. I discovered before rebooting that only Wordpad (or other non-just-plain-text apps could cut and paste). My apologies for wasting your time.

 

[Roger Garstang]

I had tried replying to this yesterday, but the forum was broke and kept saying page missing on replies. I had saved my reply text to not have to type it again and modified it slightly since now you resolved it:

Windows is pretty good about converting what is needed...although a few IE versions had a Rich Text bug and copying from forums and such didn't work too well. It is more likely that the other apps weren't closing the clipboard properly, some type of glitch didn't close it properly, or some other issue that rebooting fixed. I actually wrote a clipboard viewer app in PowerBASIC a few years back. I copied text in B4A and opened it-

1. B4A properly released/closed the clipboard and the current owner was the Clipboard Window/Class.
2. B4A Placed data in multiple formats for other apps to read from- TEXT, OEMTEXT, UNICODETEXT, LOCALE Data, DataObject, Ole Private Data, Rich Text including colors and formatting (Not just emulated from Plain Text), and System.String (Not sure what this is, might be internal to B4A).

I have WinXP 64bit at work and Win7 32 and 64 bit at home, and none of them have had issues with clipboard. Whatever the issue was should not have been caused by B4A.