Explain to me this UTTER MADNESS: By default, Ctrl+V will paste for both text and image; depending on what you are working with.
But when I wanted to be able simulate, natively, pasting a layer on top of another layer, at the same exact spot, I updated the shortcut of Ctrl+V to do Paste Special as the action. The moment I did this the regular Ctrl+V for text stopped working. How come natively the shortcut worked for both, but the moment I made a change it disassociated?
My goals is to have regular Ctrl+C/V for text but the Ctrl+V for layers to work as Paste Special (paste on top of the exact location of the original layer.
What I'm saying that clipboard should treat text and layers/imags differently; this way we coul still use Ctrl+V for basic text pasting, as well as a custom layer pasting.
The way Ctrl+V work on my machine in Application Photoshop is. If I try to past into a text area like text tools input ares or a dialog text field and there is text in the clipboard the text will be pasted in. If I try to past into a document documents canvas and there is image data in the clipboard an image raster layer will be pasted into document above the current target layer. If the the clipboard is empty nothing will happen or I'll get a pop-up stating the clipboard is empty. To tell the truth I do not know if Windows has two clipboards one for text and one for image or just a single clipboard, Does Photoshop handling of Ctr+C and Shift+Ctlt+C copy into a single system clipboard or one of two clipboards. I don't know or care. Windows Alt+Prtscrn, PrntScn and Shift+Windows+S copy data to the clipboard other application copy data to the clipboard. The application that has focus handle the current Ctrl+V shortcut. The Application knows where the user want to past into and what type of data is requires for that location. I do not understand just how you are going to intercept Ctrl+V and simulate paste and special paste.
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