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• QCE behavior with non-text items

  PowerJack > 2023-02-26 02:20

  If I copy a graphics content, the QCE window stays empty (because there is no text to edit).
  
  In (rare) occasions there are situations like this:
  My Windows desktop contains 3 items: 2 files and the recycle bin.
  
  

  1. Throw a lasso around the two files and press COPY: QCE shows the two file paths. (correct)
     
  2. Throw a lasso around all three items and press COPY: No change in the QCE window. (???)
     

  In my eyes the expected behavior would be to show the two editable file paths.
  
  I was wondering if it makes sense to have a checkbox (like 'Invisible characters') to show additional non-text content.
  But for rare occasions this would probably overload QCE. There are specialized tools for that (Link).
  
  It feels little disturbing if I press COPY and see no reaction in the QCE window.
  Btw this also happens with COPY<text item> when QCE holds edited content.
  In this case it might make sense to activate the right button (Restore the next item from clipboard)?

• RE: QCE behavior with non-text items

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-02-26 16:11

  Thanks for the feedback :-)
  
  

  (2023-02-26 02:20)PowerJack Wrote: In my eyes the expected behavior would be to show the two editable file paths.

  
  In my tests, the path of "special folders" on the desktop (like the "Recycle bin" or "This PC") are not copied to the Clipboard as are other files or folders. As soon as you select one special folder (with the lasso or Ctrl+Click, etc.) the selected paths are not copied to the Clipboard and therefore not loaded to the QCE editor.
  
  

  (2023-02-26 02:20)PowerJack Wrote: I was wondering if it makes sense to have a checkbox (like 'Invisible characters') to show additional non-text content.
  There are specialized tools for that (Link).

  
  There is an item in the wishlist about that: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=2315
  This info could be accessed from a menu and by clicking on the status. Thanks for the reference to NirSoft app.
  
  

  (2023-02-26 02:20)PowerJack Wrote: It feels little disturbing if I press COPY and see no reaction in the QCE window.
  Btw this also happens with COPY<text item> when QCE holds edited content.

  
  This is by design. As soon as the Clipboard content is changed in the editor, the editor is "disconnected" from the Clipboard. See the "modes" explanation here:
  https://clipboard.quickaccesspopup.com/f...s/#editing
  
  

  (2023-02-26 02:20)PowerJack Wrote: In this case it might make sense to activate the right button (Restore the next item from clipboard)?

  
  Clicking the "Cancel" button restores the editor with the current content of the Clipboard. Is this what you mean?

• RE: QCE behavior with non-text items

  PowerJack > 2023-02-27 02:10

  "As soon as you select one special folder (with the lasso or Ctrl+Click, etc.) the selected paths are not copied to the Clipboard and therefore not loaded to the QCE editor." --> Ah, so Windows is the bad guy!
  
  "the editor is "disconnected" from the Clipboard." --> Rightly so. But it is not visible that it works in disconnected mode.
  
  "Clicking the "Cancel" button restores the editor with the current content of the Clipboard. Is this what you mean?" --> No. Like the "left" button shows there is more history, the "right" button can show that there is more future. Only relevant if there have been further COPY commands while in disconnected mode.

• RE: QCE behavior with non-text items

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-02-27 16:17

  > But it is not visible that it works in disconnected mode.
  
  It is indicated in the first section of the status bar: "Synced" or "Editing". "Editing" means disconnected.
  
  >Like the "left" button shows there is more history, the "right" button can show that there is more future. Only relevant if there have been further COPY commands while in disconnected mode.
  
  Got it. Interesting challenge :-)

• RE: QCE behavior with non-text items

  PowerJack > 2023-02-28 02:06

  "It is indicated in the first section of the status bar: "Synced" or "Editing"." --> Aaah!
  Obviously too subtle for insensitive users like me. ;-)
  

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  "Only relevant if there have been further COPY commands while in disconnected mode." "Interesting challenge"
  --> Maybe a simpler solution: Hide the '<' and '>' buttons while in disconnected mode (do not lead us into temptation) ;-)

• RE: QCE behavior with non-text items

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-02-28 08:21

  > Maybe a simpler solution: Hide the '<' and '>' buttons while in disconnected mode (do not lead us into temptation) ;-)
  
  In general, one of my design principle is not to hide but instead disable (gray out) a feature that exists but is not available at the moment. And hiding would not be simpler. The challenge (solved yesterday) was to keep track of the history position of the content in the editor in the history before it was modified in order to keep the < and > buttons change to the expected item.
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