[news.eclipse.tools] Re: cut, copy, paste in StyledText Widget

["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
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?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> >