Paste Function

[valin]

When I use Ctrl+C to copy text from my web browser and try to paste it into Atlantis, I get an error:<br>"Error pasting data from clipboard.....". &nbsp;So I open Microsoft Word, paste it into Word, then I copy it from Word to Atlantis with no problems. &nbsp;Why the error when going straight from my web browswer to Atlantis?

[admin]

This depends on the formats available on the clipboard. MS Word supports the HTML Clipboard Format. Atlantis currently does not. Anyway you could use the drop-down menu of the Atlantis Paste toolbar button to try different clipboard formats. You could also use the Edit &#124; Paste Special... command.<br><br>Also what browser do you use?

[valin]

Using the drop down menu under the paste button, pasting from Internet Explorer works if you select either "plain text" or "plain UNICODE text". &nbsp;Thanks. ;D

[admin]

Thanks for pointing out this problem. Now I can explain this.<br><br>MS Internet Explorer is not always able to convert the selected portion of the HTML page to the RTF format. In such situations it tells Windows that the clipboard contains the RTF data, but actually MS Internet Explorer places no RTF data onto the clipboard. RTF is the most informative format for Atlantis (Atlantis currently does not support HTML). So Atlantis attempts to paste the RTF data from the clipboard. Of course, this operation fails because the clipboard contains invalid (nil) RTF data. MS Word does not attempt to paste RTF data in such situations because HTML is the most informative format for MS Word. If you used the Edit &#124; Paste Special... command of MS Word to paste the RTF data from the clipboard, this operation would fail too but MS Word would show no error messages.<br><br>The next update of Atlantis will be smarter. It will automatically attempt to use the plain text from the clipboard if the RTF data was invalid.<br><br>Thanks.