windows Copy & Paste

[Richard Kreiss]

I can test this on server 2008 later this AM. 

Richard
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On Oct 21, 2012, at 11:29 PM, "Mike Schwartz" <mschw at athenet.net> wrote:

>> 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
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