windows Copy & Paste

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 11:14 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.
> >
> > 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


Ken,

Since it is fairly easy to have the filepro window act like a "regular"
windows program by clicking one box in the properties option of the
shortcut, this should satisfy his client.

I tested this out today on my system and on a client's system using RDP
(Terminal Server).  For those accustomed to using Windows, this make sense
as they do not have to learn anything new.  I my case I found, accidently,
that a right click on my mouse saved the highlighted area and CTRL V, of
course, pasted it into the document.  CTRL V is a few key strokes less than
ALT+space, E,P.  

Richard