windows Copy & Paste

[Steve Wiltsie]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 10:14 AM
> To: Steve Wiltsie
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: windows Copy & Paste
> 
> 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.
> >
> 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

Ken,

I certainly appreciate your reply and what you are describing is exactly
what he is objecting to - too many steps to make a copy in order to
paste the copied text.  I was hoping there was a way around this.  

I realize filePro is a "Windows Console" application instead of a
"standard" one but this is very hard to describe to a customer and not
come off like I don't have any idea what they really want and am just
making excuses for "it not working right".  

This customer explained "It's Windows, Steve, it is supposed to work
like Windows should".  He does a lot of copy and paste of information
out of filePro on their SCO Unix system and it very upset it doesn't
work the very same way in the Windows version of filePro on their
Windows 2003 server from his XP workstation.  

Apparently there is no way around this, is that true?

Thanks,
Steve