Open Insight Copy From Edit Box Glitch

josh · May 2021

If you have an edit box with text in it you can copy the text in two ways:

1. CTRL-C
2. Context Menu

When I copy via the context menu, it works fine. But when I copy via CTRL-C, the new lines in the text are copied as this character û, which I am pretty sure is the @fm character (or one of the other ones).

Is this normal, or is there something wrong I am doing?

I guess to fix I need to capture the copy event and then swap the û with \r\n...but this shouldn't even be happening to begin with, right?

DonBakke · May 2021

That is likely the text mark (@TM), which is how edit box controls store line breaks internally. To the outside world, however, that should appear as CR/LF. I had never experienced what you described so I did a quick test. In both instances I get CR/LF copied to the clipboard.

Are you handling Ctrl+C yourself? If so, how are you doing this?

josh · May 2021

Hi, yes I can see that we are handling it ourselves.

value = get_property(focusField, 'DEFPROP')
selection = get_property(focusField, 'SELECTION')
iF selection<2> > 0 THEN
     value = value[selection<1>, selection<2>]
end
oryxlib_copy_to_clipboard(value)

oryxlib_copy_to_clipboard
--------------------------------------

if value then
	convert @vm to ',' in value
	swap @fm with crlf$ in value
	set_property('CLIPBOARD', 'TEXT', value)
	// srp_set_clipboard_text
end

So I need to make it swap @tm with \r\n, i think. But I'd rather not do anything. I would have assumed that ctrl-c would just work without us having to do anything. is this not true?

DonBakke · May 2021

Ctrl+C will work for most controls but not for edit tables. Having said that, I don't see any logic that mines edit tables for data so I am not sure why you have custom code for this.

AusMarkB · May 2021

I'd hazard a guess that at some time in the distant Oryx past, someone wanted to convert edittable data into a csv via copy/paste thus the above was added to the oryx library and it gradually weaved it's way into generic use.

@Josh, you could risk removing the logic (risk if it's part of promoted events, not so much if it's a direct call for that function only) or you could probably get the result you're looking for by adding

swap @tm with crlf$ in value

josh · May 2021

I will just put a check in place that if the control is an edit box, it should do this:

swap @tm with crlf$ in value

thanks

Open Insight Copy From Edit Box Glitch

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