windows Copy & Paste

[Mike Schwartz]

> I have a customer moving from Facetwin and SCO Unix with filePro 5.x to a
> Windows server with filePro 5.6.10.  Everything seems to be working pretty
> well except the customer was used to the typical "Windows version" of copy
> and paste by right clicking on the screen, drawing a box, right clicking
to select
> Copy (or using a shortcut key), and then pasting with right click or
another
> shortcut key.  He is most distressed that this exact same format doesn't
work
> in filePro for Windows.
> 
> Have any of you dealt with this issue and is there a way to get filePro to
use
> the exact same copy and paste keystrokes as most other Windows programs
> have implemented?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Wiltsie

      You don't say exactly which version of MS-Windows you are running on.
The methods differ with the version of Windows, but it can be done.

      Richard Kreiss already detailed one method of using the "mark"
command.  However, in Windows Server 2003, if you right-click on the little
icon on the left side of an open filePro window, as Richard detailed, but
instead select "properties" instead of "mark", you will see an "options" tab
that has a "quickedit mode" under "edit options".  If you check the box in
front of "quick edit mode", then the mouse should work to cut and paste text
just like your Unix users were used to.

      You may have to modify the properties on the desktop icon that your
customers use to launch filePro if you want this feature to "stick".

      Sorry, but I don't have access to a Windows Server 2008 to test this
on.

      In addition to what Richard mentioned, for some versions of
MS-Windows, holding down the "alt" key and then pressing "k" starts the
"arrows editing" process.  That may only work for Windows 2000 or Windows NT
servers and other older versions of Windows.  As I recall, the alt-k stopped
functioning when Windows XP was released.

Mike Schwartz