Re: IBrowse Auto Copy Feature

Hi all,

One thing that hasn't been mentioned, which to me is more important than
whether I have to press Right Amiga-C to copy or not (I quite like auto copy
as it goes), is how to copy more than a few screenloads of text in one go?
And I don't mean clicking and dragging - especially when the page scolls at
4 lines a second and you want to copy 400 lines........

I'm sure I had this question answered before, but couln't trace the reply.

The fact is that none of the expected behaviours seems to work:

On Windows clicking once at the beginning, pressing page down or end etc to
get to the bottom, holding down shift and clicking at the end highlights all
text from the 1st click upto the 2nd and one can press Ctrl-C to copy the
highlighted text to the clipboard. On IB this sort of scenario (obviously
substituting Amiga equivalent commands where necessary) doesn't work.

The other more Amiga like option doesn't work either. DPaint made famous the
ultimate in user friendly intuitiveness of being able to for example zoom by
pressing the keyboard shortcuts while carrying out things with the mouse, so
expecting the IB displayed page to scroll using the cursor keys (shifted for
acceleration) does nothing while some text is highlighted with the mouse.
:-(

But I'm sure there is a way - but maybe a more user friendly way needs to be
included too.

Kind regards,

Kulwant



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Hello Kulwant

On 07/09/2007, you wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> One thing that hasn't been mentioned, which to me is more important
> than whether I have to press Right Amiga-C to copy or not (I quite like
>; auto copy as it goes), is how to copy more than a few screenloads of
> text in one go? And I don't mean clicking and dragging - especially
> when the page scolls at 4 lines a second and you want to copy 400
> lines........
>
> I'm sure I had this question answered before, but couln't trace the
> reply.
>
> The fact is that none of the expected behaviours seems to work:
>
> On Windows clicking once at the beginning, pressing page down or end
> etc to get to the bottom, holding down shift and clicking at the end
> highlights all text from the 1st click upto the 2nd and one can press
> Ctrl-C to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard. On IB this sort
>; of scenario (obviously substituting Amiga equivalent commands where
> necessary) doesn't work.
>
> The other more Amiga like option doesn't work either. DPaint made
>; famous the ultimate in user friendly intuitiveness of being able to for
> example zoom by pressing the keyboard shortcuts while carrying out
> things with the mouse, so expecting the IB displayed page to scroll
> using the cursor keys (shifted for acceleration) does nothing while
> some text is highlighted with the mouse. :-(
>
> But I'm sure there is a way - but maybe a more user friendly way needs
> to be included too.

You can either use the scroll wheel, eg. left clickand hold, scroll with the
wheel & let go or if you're on a classic without scroll wheel support, left
click and hold, double middle click, move the mouse down to highlight and
then release.

> Kind regards,
>
> Kulwant
>
>
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