Re: gEDA-user: Odd behavior with gschem

[Jim <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 06:24 -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
> > I'm running the default gschem 1.6.? that comes with Ubuntu  9.10.  I 
> > went in to duplicate a symbol (highlight, copy, paste) and it worked a 
> > few times (3 or 4 or 5).  Then it stopped working.  I could highlight 
> > and copy, but the paste selection under edit was greyed out.  Am I doing 
> > something wrong?  Did I fill a buffer?  I could save my work and exit 
> > and come back in and continue, but eventually the paste would become 
> > unavailable again.
> >     
>
> That is very strange. Although with Ubuntu 9.10, I think your gschem
> version is likely to be 1.4.3 (checked on packages.ubuntu.com), and that
> isn't a supported version any more.
>
> This said, I'm still interested to know why the problem you've seen is
> occurring, as the 1.4.x buffer code is still used in the 1.6.x series.
>
> gschem 1.6.x now uses the clipboard for copy-paste - meaning you can now
> transfer schematic elements between gschem windows from different gschem
> processes. It also means that "paste" won't work once you've copied
> something different somewhere else, but I don't think this is what
> you're seeing.
>
>
> Can you detail some exact steps to reproduce the issue, or is it more
> random?
>
>   

OK, not random. About says 1.6.1.20100214.

Put a symbol on a schematic.  Click away from the symbol and then click 
to select.  Go to the Edit/copy menu.  Then click on Edit/paste.  Left 
click somewhere.  The part is duplicated.  Now repeat.  Select nothing 
then select on of the two parts on the page.  Edit/copy.  The Edit/paste 
is now greyed out on my system and I cannot find a way of getting it to 
come back.

The right click Copy seems to work differently, there is no paste 
option, but I discovered that if you left click the symbol appears and 
can be dragged.  It doesn't seem to have the limit the Edit menu has.  I 
must say I've never used a GUI where the top menu and the right click 
menus work differently at least with respect to the copy/paste 
functions.  Not to say this isn't a nice feature (right click) but I 
found it quite by accident.

Thanks,
Jim.


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