windows Copy & Paste

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/21/2012 6:03 PM, Steve Wiltsie 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?

Don't blame filePro, as filePro uses the standard Windows console 
functionality, and what you describe is not part of it.

For console windows, you need to put the window into "mark" mode before 
selecting the text.  I find the keyboard shortcuts for this to be easier 
than the mouse method -- Alt+space, E, K.  (System menu, "Edit", "marK".) 
At that point, you can either use the mouse (click and drag) or the keyboard 
(arrows, then shift-arrows) to select the rectangle.  To copy the 
highlighted region, either use system-menu/Edit/copY, or just press Enter.

To paste into a console window, Alt+space, E, P.

-- 
Kenneth Brody