Copy & Paste with proportional fonts

[mr_a500]

I use PowerSnap 2.2a and it works fine with fixed-width fonts, but doesn't work at all with proportional fonts.

Has anyone gotten PowerSnap to work with proportional fonts or know of another text copy&paste program that does work? (in WB3.1)

[mr_a500]

Nobody?? Come on, I thought somebody would know. Copying & pasting text is a pretty basic OS function.



(Maybe it's just not an exciting enough thread title. I should have added the word 'SEX')

[Jope]

Hmm, didn't the powersnap manual say that it won't work with proportional fonts?

You do know, that it works by OCR? You have to tell it what fonts it should match against, then it tries to match those against the area you paint.

[mr_a500]

No, the manual doesn't say that it won't work with proportional fonts. There is an ALLFONTS switch and it says that 'PowerSnap will try all open fonts in memory when it is looking for characters'.

But if PowerSnap doesn't work with proportional fonts, is there a program that does? What is everybody using for WB copy & paste?

[X-ray]

I also want to know what you guys use for cut and paste on 3.1

[Jope]

Most modern programs support the clipboard natively so you don't need powersnap.

The last time I saw anyone use powersnap was back in the modem trading days before file_id.diz became popular.

People would snap the descriptions of the files they traded from the terminal prog and paste them into CEd before pasting them to the destination machine when uploading. :-)

MCP also has a powersnap like function, so you might want to try that too if powersnap doesn't work properly.

I haven't used either any more in the current century, as I don't really see what the use for that would be. The CON windows support copypaste (via conclip) and all the other SW I'd like to copy and paste from/to also support the clipboard natively.

[itix]

MUI 3.9 also supports copy/paste for all normal text fields.

[mr_a500]

@Jope

Yes, most modern programs support clipboard, but you can only usually clip text within editor windows. I'm talking about clipping text anywhere you see it. Like try clipping text in an AmigaGuide document. You can't, but you can with powersnap. I can clip text anywhere on the screen: buttons, window titles, etc and it saves the tedious typing. Powersnap is awesome and one of my most used programs. It just doesn't work with proportional fonts and I thought I could get it to work or find another program.

Thanks for the MCP suggestion, but when I tried MCP last year it was just crash, crash, CRASH. (and I spent hours trying it)


@itix

Isn't MUI 3.9 MorphOS only?