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    Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Copying and pasting text from the help manual to an editor does not seem to work.
    This would be nice to be able to do.

    Thanks.
    Ralph

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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Hi,

    I think I had similar issue, but cannot replicate it now.
    What helped was using context menu / Copy in help files, instead of CTRL-C.

    I hope it helps, I have ThinBasic 1.7.5.0 and cannot replicate the problem (CTRL-C works for me)


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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    I often copy from .chm help file not with CTRL + C but using Right-Mouse context menu as Petr suggested

    Hope it helps.

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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Using Ctrl-C or the context menu acts the same.

    I am using 1.7.5.0 and pasting to a standard txt file is no problem
    but nothing will paste to an rtf file.

    Notepad works fine but a Wordpad doc file will not allow a paste.

    Puzzling because copying and pasting from any other html document
    has always worked fine as much as I can remember.

    For me this has always been the case for the thinBasic help manual,
    but with so many new things being added, I am wanting to copy and
    paste more and more and I was hoping there was a quick fix. This is
    not a real difficulty because actually typing commands only takes a
    moment.

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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    I just tested under XP Sp3 and all seems working fine on my Work PC (in my development laptop it was already working).

    Select the text I need in thinBasic help
    CTRL + C
    switch to any of the following: WordPad, NotePad, thinAir, Word
    CTRL + V

    Test is pasted as expected.

    Very strange what you get.
    thinBasic help file a standard .CHM file. Nothing strange. It is produced using one of the best help authoring tool around: Help And Manual Pro http://www.helpandmanual.com

    I do not understand how I can help on this.
    If you still have problems, consider downloading the HTML or PDF version of thinBasic help from http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?o...tegory&catid=4
    But of course it has not the same integration with thinAir.

    Let me know
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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    I experience the same problem like efly2000.

    I think it has to do with how thinAIR opens HTML help files. If you open them separately, CTRL+C and CTRL+V works fine. If you open it through thinAIR, then you will see it not working. Kinda the same problem with the links of TBGL and TBEM inside the thinBasic help file. from outside they work, from within thinAir they don't.

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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    I know this problem was discussed way back in the beginning of the year, but I thought some pictures of the problem would be helpful if it is indeed a problem with thinAir.

    Here are pictures of the problem. I'm using thinAir 1.7.10.0.

    EDIT: I just did some quick testing. The problem doesn't occur if I go from the Help Manual to Notepad then to thinAir. It only happens if I go straight from Help to thinAir.

    Mark

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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Hi Mark,

    I can see this problem too. I have to use context menu + Copy.
    I think thinAir somehow eats the keypresses - when I press CTRL+F in help file launched from thinAIR, it takes me back to thinAIR and seeks there.
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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Quote Originally Posted by Petr Schreiber
    Hi Mark,

    I can see this problem too. I have to use context menu + Copy.
    If by context menu you mean the menu that pops up when you right click, that method doesn't work for me. It isn't that big of a deal. I was just wondering if the problem had been tracked down, but it seems that it hasn't since the exact problem hasn't even been identified since different people are having variations of the problem. Perhaps for that reason it isn't a problem with thinAir but our computers ... or a problem with both ... who knows.


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    Re: Copy and paste from the Help Manual

    Yes problem was in some way fixed (in old thinAir pasted code was a mess of HTML code and source code) but not for all cases.
    I think I've improved again a bit. I'm making some final testing but I think I've got a good compromise.

    I will release soon a new beta version.

    Thanks

    ps:
    yes I like troubleshooting and I like more to fix bugs
    Well, the best is not to have bugs but considering how big the project is, it is impossible. So we will go on on finding / killing bugs.
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