paste to texteditor

[tsh73]

It looks like in JB2 "!paste" sometimes go to wrong texteditor
actually in active one
Same program works OK in JB 1.01
Same (wrong) behaviour happens in LB 4.5.1

Workaround:
you can manually setfocus before paste and return focus back.
Problem is, you have no way of knowing where "back" (active control) is in JB - in LB it could be got by API call

Instructions:
put the program in JB
copy to clipboard single word (or it likely will have all program code!)
run program
After timer fires, clipboard text should appear in lower textbox
Now click in that textbox
PASTE that should work on upper textbox
(there is only one PASTE command,
#main.hiddenOffScreenTxt "!paste")
somehow adds text to lower one



   'nomainwin

   WindowWidth = 550
   WindowHeight = 410

   UpperLeftX=int((DisplayWidth-WindowWidth)/2)
   UpperLeftY=int((DisplayHeight-WindowHeight)/2)

   button #main.button1, "readClipboard", [button1Click], UL, 26, 116, 122, 25
   texteditor #main.hiddenOffScreenTxt, 0, 0, 500, 100
   texteditor #main.log, 22, 151, 500, 300
   menu #main, "Edit"    '<--- Texteditor Menu can be moved but not removed.

   open "read Clipboard demo" for window as #main
   print #main, "trapclose [quit.main]"

   print #main, "font ms_sans_serif 10"
   '#main.hiddenOffScreenTxt "!setfocus"
   '#main.log "!setfocus"

   timer 1500, [readClip]
   'goto [button1Click]

   wait

[quit.main]
   Close #main
   END


[button1Click]    'Perform action for the button named 'button1'
update=1    'force adding to the log even if clipboard not changed
[readClip] 'entry point by timer
   'get the data from hidden texteditor
   oldString$= string$
   print  update, oldString$,  string$
   #main.hiddenOffScreenTxt "!cls"
   #main.hiddenOffScreenTxt "!paste"
   #main.hiddenOffScreenTxt "!contents? string$"
   if (update=1) or (oldString$ <> string$ and  string$<>"") then
       'add it to the logs
       #main.log time$(); " From clipboard ";len(string$);" bytes"
       #main.log ">";string$;"<"
   end if
   update=0
   wait



[jarych]

I THOUGHT I read somewhere that only ONE texteditor control is supposed to be used in any given window. (Where was that "somewhere" I cannot remember.)

[tsh73]

Well, "supposed to" is very vague thing.
Is it kind of design guideline?
I surely used more then one textbox - there is no such limit in JB
Pretty often I add seperate texteditor as "log" window.

There is known limitation - only one graphicbox could use sprite engine
That's all I know.

[jarych]

Aug 4, 2022 19:46:16 GMT tsh73 said:

Well, "supposed to" is very vague thing.
Is it kind of design guideline?
I surely used more then one textbox - there is no such limit in JB
Pretty often I add seperate texteditor as "log" window.

There is known limitation - only one graphicbox could use sprite engine
That's all I know.

I could have remembered incorrectly, and was not sure if the strict was GRAPHICBOX or TEXTEDITOR.