IGUIEditBox - Copy & Paste

Pan · Post by **Pan** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:41 pm

Just a quick question about the IGUIEditBox class:

When using some/most of the now-standard text shortcuts in the Edit Boxes, they work just fine. However strg-c & strg-v for copy and paste don't seem to work. I find this a little bit weird, since strg-x works for me and the marked text is cut, but I can't insert it anywhere.

Is this the normal behaviour for edit boxes or should strg-c / strg-v (or some other combination?) work in order to copy & paste the text of an Edit Box..?

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:01 pm

Should work, but isn't supported yet on all platforms. I think right now Windows and OSX will work and Linux unfortunately won't.

Pan · Post by **Pan** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:05 pm

Ah okay, thanks!

Do you know whether this is currently considered a "bug" or rather a "missing feature"?
In other words: might this be fixed/changed soon, or shouldn't I hold my breath for this one?

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:01 pm

If you want to add it to a tracker - I would be fine with both categories :-) I only noticed myself that this is missing a short while ago and haven't looked yet how much work it would be to support that on Linux. Right now I don't even know exactly how clipboard buffers for X and the desktop systems (like kde, gnome) work together. I know there is more than one buffer (as I get different texts right now in iceweasel depending whether I use middle-mouse or ctrl+v), but I don't know yet if there is one per desktop environment or if they have manage to at least agree on some common stuff there in X.

Anyway - I hope I'll get around finding a solution for that at some time, but we're talking rather weeks/months than days if you wait there for me. If someone sends a good patch it might go faster.

Pan · Post by **Pan** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:54 am

Alright, thanks for the info. I added the problem to the bug tracker.