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lm2 is offline lm2
2009-04-06 , 22:33
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#81
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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!
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.
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#82
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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.
Right now mixing gtk and kinetic w/ QCV is not possible, but d-pad scrolling is being implemented!
 

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2009-04-06 , 22:40
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#83
Originally Posted by lm2 View Post
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.
That would be at the risk of confusing new users (I think the Settings dialog is kinda intimidating already!).

Plus, I think the prompt idea is kinda cool.
 
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That would be at the risk of confusing new users (I think the Settings dialog is kinda intimidating already!).
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.
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2009-04-06 , 23:09
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Originally Posted by lm2 View Post
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.

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.
 

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#86
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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.
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.
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#87
Originally Posted by BrentDC View Post
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'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?
 
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Originally Posted by lm2 View Post
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.
Yeah, that usage is more abnormal than normal I would think (hope). lm2, you are abnormal! JK.
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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?
Haven't tested it, but yes that's how I think it would work.

I'll implement it tonight and see what happens...
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Yeah, that usage is more abnormal than normal I would think (hope). lm2, you are abnormal! JK.
Funny, I would think that a fair number would use QC as I do--especially non-advanced users.

My tablet is mostly used for reading news online. When I do so, and there is a fact that I want to keep track of, QC is great. But often I want to go back to where I got the fact, which is why I want the url.

Seems quite normal to me.
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