[Gambas-user] No ctrl-c and ctrl-v (copy/ paste) since V3.16.0

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 19/09/2021 à 17:33, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
>> I will look at that. I think your bug will win the price of the weirdest
>> of all reported Gambas bugs.
> 
> As You may have experienced I am a specialist for weird bugs :-)).
> 
> I have a new and important finding, which doesn't fix the bug, but which
> allows me to make the short-keys work again in any troubled project:
> 
> I noted one important difference between the project-version where the
> short-keys worked and the project-version where they didn't work.
> This was found in the ".settings" file of the IDE and suddenly all
> different reports to this bug became explainable:
> 
> The number of files which are kept open in the code editor are
> typically increasing the longer people work on the project.
> In my case that were 18 files (I am just too lazy to close them).
> All these 18 files are opened again when I start a new session.
> 
> So I reduced the number of opened files/tabs step by step, reloaded
> the project and suddenly the short-keys worked.
> 
> When sending a project to someone, the number of opened files is just
> 2 (virgin status). At this number the Gambas-IDE seems to have no
> problem - even on the weakest PC.
> 
> The problem occurs on all my PCs because I copy the whole
> project directory over the network - including the ".settings" file -
> which forces all my PCs to open 18 files/tabs with the same bad result.
> 
> It also explains a user report were he had a well working IDE
> and next day he had a problem with the short-keys. Probably
> because he opened some more files during the last session.
> 
> This tells me that since V3.16.0 the Gambas-IDE became critical
> with regard to the amount of loading processes when a project is
> opened. The general size of the project/ code may also play a
> role during loading.
> 
> With this it is also apparent that a quicker PC will be less
> problematic and a quicker Gambas (if run with qt) too.
> 
> Thanks for your offer to take care of this bug.
> 
> Claus
> 

Hi,

I have just committed a fix. The image editor was eating shortcuts 
because its popup menu was not initially disabled (a bad stupid bug of 
mine...).

Can you check the fix with the development version?

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Benoît Minisini