The 03.07.07 at 08:53, John Pettigrew wrote:
Try to copy paste between Mozilla and OO, for example.
Works fine here using either middle-click or copy&paste. What's the problem?
Select some html text in mozilla: press left mouse button, move mouse. Paste in OO writer: click midle button. Or Ctrl-C in one, Ctrl-V in the other. So far, so good... but format is destroyed, fontsizes, etc, and with html tags and codes inserted as text. I haven't tried exactly this in windows, but I bet it works. Now the reverse, from OO writer to mozilla compose (netscape, actually): with keyboard shortcuts (ctrl-C .. V), and mouse, I get chinesse in Netscape: and I mean literally, chinese hierogliphics :-O If you call that "working"...
Or try to find or use "paste as" between different applications.
I never use "Paste as...", sorry!
Well, it is a feature by which you select what format the text or whatever you paste will go. Ie, interpret it as html, rich text, image, an object (windoze OLE), etc. Inside OO, it works, I think. In windows this works because de OS provides some functions for the clipboard. The receiving app selects a format from a list (suplied by the sending app), and the sending app has to convert to it - if I remember correctly, my docs on this are old. In linux, only plain text is transferred between different apps. Someone will know better than me on this, I'm sure :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson