Re: win32 problems - copy/paste problems

[Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>]

* Nehal <nehalmistry@gmx.net> [031003 22:54]:
> Hello,
> 
> 2 problems im having with win32,
> 
> 1)
> i think ever since 2.0.4 (or maybe earlier) i've had this:
> xchat seems to be doing something weird with cut/paste, 
> sometimes i cant copy and paste even in normal programs 
> (eg, if i copy from notepad, and try to paste in 
> notepad, nothing will show it) this will fix when 
> i select some text and deselect it in xchat.
> 
> the behaviour should be changed to work with other 
> win32 programs, ie, only ctrl-c should copy to clipboard, 
> NOT selecting text by itself, this seems to be causing 
> problems for me

I have seen similar cut/paste issues with xchat, and I'm trying to track
them down.  There are open bugs about Xchat locking the clipboard
(something I've only seen rarely, but not limited to XChat), and I
personally have issues with cutting from xchat windows into other apps.

However, the auto-cut on highlight behavior is not only inherent in
enarly every variation of XWindows window managers, but also the vast
majority of Windows IRC clients.  (eg.. mIRC does it :( ).  Taking that
away would be a violation of POLA for IRC users switching from UNIX ->
Windows XChat or mIRC -> Windows XChat.  Obviously, the solution is to
make it work, not turn it off.

I'm trying to track it down right now but I'm having problems
reproducing it, so bear with me.  

> 
> 2) when you right click in the window to bring up the menu, 
> and then alt-tab to another program, the menu will not 
> disappear, you must go back to xchat and left click 
> on the window ... this is not important, and is actually 
> a gtk problem, not xchat

Hrm. Never seen this, but there may be workarounds.  Windows windows get
a message when they lose focus, perhaps xchat could intercept that
message and work around the gtk bug by forcing the menu closed.  I'll
write that down :)

--Mike

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