clipboard display in Windows

[Michael Correll]

Craig:

I've never seen the Win clipboard to fail.  Your data is safe.  I  
regularly copy/paste large multi mb graphics from one destination to  
another.  I can't tell you if there is some kind of upper limit on  
the amount of data the clipboard will hold. Perhaps someone else  
knows off the top.   I suspect there is (relative to memory and disk  
space) -- but I've never encountered that limit in practical  
application.

Just ran a little test w Pan 4 Win -- built an array (using exportline 
()) of a 3mb Pan Win file and copied to the clipboard.  I then pasted  
into a new Text file and imported back into to Pan.  No problems.    
The Pan 4 Edit/Show Clipboard window shows a blank, so something  
there doesn't "see" what's on the clipboard.  Is that what you are  
referring to?   But otherwise, the Win clipboard traditionally  
handles data just as well as the Mac.  And I've never encountered a  
problem using the clipboard under Pan 4.  So far....

MC.
--
Michael Correll



On Apr 6, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Craig McPherson wrote:

> I have noticed that Windows freaks out when a lot of text is loaded  
> to its clipboard.
> I used an arraybuild to generate a large list of more than 1,000  
> names and copied the list to the clipboard.
>
> On all my Macs, when I show the clipboard, all the names appear,  
> but on the Windows XP machine, using showclipboard results in the  
> clipboard window opening but it appears blank. If I switch to  
> Notes, the Windows TextEdit, and paste, the contents of the  
> clipboard get pasted successfully.
>
> I don't know if this is a Windows issue or a Panorama 4  
> issue....but since Jim might start working on an upgrade for the  
> Windows side soon, I thought it worth mentioning. Actually I  
> thought I had mentioned this some time ago, but couldn't find it in  
> a quick search of the Provue website QnA archive (which is very  
> handy BTW; thanks Jim).
> Craig McPherson
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