[news.eclipse.platform.swt] [Repost from deprecated newsgroup] cut, copy

["Paul T. Keyser" <rolarenfan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

R2.0.2, Win2K

I agree with Kyle Farnand who describes the problem accurately and
correctly: I see exactly the same thing (and have posted before [on the
now-depreacted newsgroup] about this, but the threads died).

As far as I can tell, these are the facts (R2.0.2, Win2K):
1) Text widget: comes with an OS-supplied popupmenu in which are items
Cut/Copy/Paste (but Ctrl-C/V/X do *NOT* work); if you add your own
popupmenu (via SWT) you lose the whole OS-supplied menu; if you then add
to your own popupmenu, your own items Cut/Copy/Paste, and hook the API
for those actions, you can restore the Cut/Copy/Paste function, but
there appears to be NO way to get Ctrl-C/V/X to work (with or without a
popupmenu).

2) StyledText widget: comes with *NO* popupmenu; you can add your own
popupmenu (via SWT, pretty much the same as for the Text); to your own
popupmenu, you can add your own items Cut/Copy/Paste, and hook the API
for those actions, thus for the first time obtaining the Cut/Copy/Paste
function, but there appears to be NO way to get Ctrl-C/V/X to work (with
or without a popupmenu).

Maybe what Knut and Lynne are saying is that in R2.1, the Ctrl-C/V/X has
somehow been fixed (via fixing some bug not known to have been
connected, but nevertheless connected)?

Paul K

Knut Radloff wrote:

> Which build and OS are you using? Copy to clipboard (using Ctrl+C)
works for me in a read-only single line Text and StyledText
> widget in R2.1
> I searched the StyledText bugs we fixed in 2.1 and didn't see anything
cut/paste related that may have caused your problem.
>
> Knut
> "kyle farnand" <kfarnand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:b7n3jl$sh7$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Looking at the Text tab of the SWT Controls sample view and playing
> > around with all the different parameters, there were no parameters
that
> > I could set to get CTRL-C to work in either the Text or Styled Text
> > widget (including READ_ONLY).  Right Click->Copy worked with any
> > parameter settings on the Text widget but not on the StyledText
widget.
> >
> > Is this the desired functionality for the StyledText widget?
> >
> > kyle farnand wrote:
> > > I must be doing something wrong then.  I tried CTRL-C and paste
the
> > > results into notepad and don't get anything.  I know about the API
but
> > > was hoping to get this functionality for free (which seems
possible). In
> > > the Text widget you get <right-click> menu -> copy functionality
and was
> > > hoping that would be the same in StyledText widget.
> > >
> > > Lynne Kues wrote:
> > >
> > >> I do not understand what you are talking about.
> > >>
> > >> If the StyledText widget is READ_ONLY, the copy operation is
available
> > >> (select some text and press CTRL-C), but you cannot paste to or
cut
> > >> from the
> > >> widget since it is readonly.  Also note that there is API in the
> > >> StyledText
> > >> widget to cut, copy and paste programatically.
> > >>
> > >> "kyle farnand" <kfarnand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > >> news:b7mtas$n7d$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>
> > >>> When I use the below code, I get copy and paste for free.
> > >>>
> > >>> >Text modelText = new Text(modelXMLContainer, SWT.READ_ONLY
|SWT.MULTI);
> > >>> >modelText.setText(modelString);
> > >>>
> > >>> But when I used the StyledText widget, I lose this
functionality.
> > >>>
> > >>> >StyledText modelText = new StyledText(modelXMLContainer,
> > >>> SWT.READ_ONLY);
> > >>> >modelText.setText(modelString);
> > >>>
> > >>> An earlier post said I should get the same copy and paste
functionality
> > >>> if I use SWT.READ_ONLY in the constructor from both widgets but
that is
> > >>> not the case.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is there an easy way to get this copy and paste functionality
out of the
> > >>> StyledText widget (as in the Text widget) or do I have to
implement it
> > >>> myself?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >