clipboard display in Windows

[Craig McPherson]

Yes, that is exactly the problem: users click on ShowClipboard (a button),
the display window pops up and shows BLANK. Subsequent pastes behave as
expected, pasting whatever. But the user, seeing a blank contents window,
believes the clipboard carries nothing.
Craig McPherson

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Michael Correll <
mcorrell at memphisbusiness.com> wrote:

>
> 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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