Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 277951)

Yes, the OS supports two text selections at once, PRIMARY and SECONDARY. Quick Clip only reads the Primary selection, because what if you have a webpage selected then switch to another application and select something else then clip that selection? I could concatenate the two selections then clip them together, but I think more times than not that wouldn't be the desired effect. So as of now Quick Clip ignores Secondary.

A possibility would be to sense if both primary and secondary were selected the give a prompt: "What do you want to clip? Primary | Secondary | Both".

That's getting fancy, though! ;)

Originally Posted by lm2 (Post 277952)

Perhaps the problem is that tear has both kinetic and gtk and d-pad scrolling at once. Perhaps if QC had all three, the swiftness of the kinetic wouldn't be a big deal. :)

Originally Posted by lm2 (Post 277955)

Or perhaps you could have yet another settings box, whereby one can choose a default clipping protocol. Probably giving the choice between Primary and Primary+Secondary would be fine. I can't think of a scenario where one would want to clip the secondary but not the primary.

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 277958)

That would be at the risk of confusing new users (I think the Settings dialog is kinda intimidating already!).

Originally Posted by lm2 (Post 277962)

True, but the prompt idea would add yet one more step to clipping. Right now I have: (1) minimize microb window, (2) tap status bar applet, (3) choose file, (4) choose Selection>File, (5) maximize microb window. The prompt would add a sixth step.

You could always have an "Advanced Settings" menu in settings.

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 277963)

But, the dialog would only come up if both secondary and primary have selections. So for 99% of the time when you only have primary selected, you wouldn't ever see the prompt, but for the times you need it, it would be there.

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 277951)

Yes, the OS supports two text selections at once, PRIMARY and SECONDARY. Quick Clip only reads the Primary selection, because what if you have a webpage selected then switch to another application and select something else then clip that selection?

Originally Posted by lm2 (Post 277964)

Ah, there's the rub. For me, the 1% consists of times when I DON'T have both primary and secondary (url) selected. But perhaps my situation is too idiosyncratic to accommodate. I can live with that.

Originally Posted by GeraldKo (Post 277966)

I'm surprised it works like that. Really, if I've selected something in two different applications and used QC to select Primary and Secondary, it would pull the selected text from both applications, even though one isn't even the active (top-window) app?

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 277968)

Yeah, that usage is more abnormal than normal I would think (hope). lm2, you are abnormal! ;) JK.