Copy text, paste surprise: large bitmap

[Guest]

Regularly in Frame 9 (and this used to happen in Frame 8), I cut some text and try to paste it and instead of the text, I get a huge bitmapped image of my screen. Anyone else run into this and know how to prevent it from happening?

[Mike Wickham]

It sounds like you hit the Print Screen key before you pasted. Hitting Print

Screen in Windows copies the desktop to the clipboard.

Mike Wickham

[MichaelKazlow]

You don't mention where the "text" is coming from. However, if you can paste special and paste as plain text. If that option is not possible, then you have not copied text at all. What can you paste as?

[Guest]

This happens frequently, but not consistently, though once it starts it is hard to circumvent. I have text on a Frame page with simple paragraph and character formats applied. I select a paragraph, Ctrl-c, select an insertion point on the same or different page, and Ctrl-p: A huge screen shot gets inserted instead of my text. I can work around this by carefully repeating the procedure using the menu commands for copy and paste, instead of keyboard shortcuts. How do you think I've taken a screen shot instead of copying the text? It's not as if this is completely repeatable. Just in case it provides any kind of clue, this is often after triple-clicking to select a paragraph, and often on a page with art in a frame on the page. Red herrings?

Thanks!

[Arnis Gubins]

Do you have any kind of screen capture software running on your machine, e.g. SnagIt, RoboScreenCapture, etc.? Perhaps there is a conflict with some of the hotkeys or mouse buttons?

[Guest]

This happens frequently, but not consistently, though once it starts it is

hard to circumvent. I have text on a Frame page with simple paragraph and

character formats applied. I select a paragraph, Ctrl-c, select an insertion

point on the same or different page, and Ctrl-p: A huge screen shot gets

inserted instead of my text. I can work around this by carefully repeating

the procedure using the menu commands for copy and paste, instead of

keyboard shortcuts. How do you think I've taken a screen shot instead of

copying the text? It's not as if this is completely repeatable. Just in case

it provides any kind of clue, this is often after triple-clicking to select

a paragraph, and often on a page with art in a frame on the page. Red

herrings?

Thanks, folks.

[Arnis Gubins]

Uh-oh. Looks like we have an email loop. If this starts to accelerate, this thread may have to be locked to keep things from getting out of hand.

[Guest]

You said Control+p for paste, but it's actually Control+v .

[Art Campbell]

.... and Ctrl+p is the default for Print. If you have Snagit, for instance, set as your default printer, that would trigger it.

[Guest]

No screen capture. Sorry abt the typo for Ctrl-v.

[Art Campbell]

Well, if you're sure you're not hitting PrintScrn instead of P, and you don't have any memory resident programs that manipulate the clipboard, you're still talking about a Windows Clipboard issue rather than a Frame issue.

The way Frame works for pasting is by pulling in the contents of the system clipboard.So it's basically functioning in GIGO mode. So it sounds as if you need to figure out how the clipboard is being loaded with a screen shot.

You may want to try using Paste Special for a while to see what's on the clipboard before you paste...

[Guest]

Thanks, Art. I agree that the real question is why, when I Ctrl-x to start to move a paragraph, the paragraph disappears as expected but the clipboard gets a bitmap in it (when I have not taken a screen shot or pressed PrintScreen since last rebooting my computer).

[Guest]

What OS are you using? What specific service pack?

[Guest]

XPsp3, but this has happened to me for a long time on various OSs and at a previous company with entirely different system (XPsp2 in a VMWare Fusion VM with Frame 8 whereas now I'm running XPsp3 on bare metal with Frame 9).

[Guest]

Apps that use the Windows clipboard often copy multiple formats of the highlighted content into the clipboard, and the same app or another app can often choose one of those several formats to be pasted.

It sounds like you're getting some oddball interaction, possibly because of some other application or utility that's also running on your system, that's changing the "paste" selection of format.

Found a good blog entry talking about using Windows built-in Clipboard viewer to see what's on the clipboard, and what's the default format:

http://www.mschaef.com/blog/tech/excel/what_is_in_your_clipboard.txt

hmmm, that's odd, I had the clipbrd running and then opened FM9, but FM9 crashed. I closed clipbrd and FM9 opened just fine. Then I could re-load clipbrd.

ok, so what you could do is use this clipboard viewer to watch what format is indicated after you copy something from your FM document (which format is shown with the checkmark in the View menu). And then if you want to test one of the other formats, choose that format in the dropdown list and then try Ctl+v into FM.

If you're testing this, though, be sure to have backup copies of all files so that if FM does crash while a doc's open it won't trash it (whot? FM trash a file? surely I must be jesting....!)