Under menu tab “New in V9”, clicking on icons “Paste with base point” and “Paste as block” issues a command consisting of Windows clipboard contents.
For example, if I have a text document open in Windows and copy a few words to the clipboard such as “best regards”, then clicking on the above mentioned icons in Rhino 9 will issue the command, “best regards” resulting in, “Unknown command: best regards”
Hi Joshua -
I’m not sure how that is a problem…
If you simply paste that string in Rhino, you will get the same thing. In all Rhino’s from version 1 to version 9. What would you expect to happen?
-wim
What happens if the “few words” is one word: a recognizable Rhino command?
wim,
Either you did not read my post or I explained it badly.
Of course I am not pasting the string into Rhino, I am left mouse clicking on the icons previously mentioned and it those icons that are using the clipboard text.
I would expect that clicking on a toolbar icon would invoke it’s assigned command and not some text that happens to be on the clipboard.
Paste is just pasting whatever there is on the clipboard, the new PasteAt is no different from that. So if text happens to be on the clipboard, that’s what it will paste.
I expected Rhino to check if the item to be pasted was a valid Rhino object that had been copied first, perhaps using it’s own “clipboard”
Here’s another way to look at this.
If I click on an icon called “Paste as block”, do I expect that item to be pasted into,
a. the command line
b. the viewport
I would expect the viewport, however in 9 WIP it is being pasted into the command line.
Hi @Joshua
What would you expect to pasted as a block? The text? But the text on your clipboard is not a Rhino object - it’s just text. If you want the text on your clipboard to be a Rhino object, you need the Text command and copy/paste the text into the appropriate field. Same thing goes the other way around. If you copy a Rhino text object, you can’t paste it into Word or Notepad as text; it’ll come in as a bitmap. If you need the actual text, you need to edit the text and copy it from there. A Windows clipboard text object and a Rhino text object is not the same.
HTH, Jakob
PS And pasting text into the command line is really nifty if eg. getting calculations from other software, copying measurements from the command line etc.
Nobody who replied has read and understood what I have said so at this point I don’t care any more, let the issue remain.
Hmm?