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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: kiwi on February 28, 2002, 06:21:35 am

Title: [Q] Clipboard appears to be broken
Post by: kiwi on February 28, 2002, 06:21:35 am
Hi all,

Ok what am I doing wrong?



This is build 467 btw.
Title: Re: [Q] Clipboard appears to be broken
Post by: James on February 28, 2002, 09:00:06 am
Hi Julian,

What you're using is the 'internal' clipboard, used to move/copy objects within EA.  You will find that, if you copy some objects to the clipboard as described, you can go to another diagram and, when right-clicking the mouse on the diagram you have two new options to 'Paste objects as link' and 'Paste Objects as new'.  These allow you to place objects on more than one diagram (as link) or complete copies (as new).  I think this is fairly well covered in the help-files.

If you want to copy a diagram out of EA and into MS-world then use 'Copy diagram image to clipboard' or 'Copy...to file'.  You might want to experiment with these two and also the 'Tools->Options' setting of 'clipboard to bitmap/metafile' for best results when copying into Word/Powepoint/Visio etc (some options don't render backgrounds of semi-transparent objects too well).

I'd also commend Steve Straley's excellent manual which explains this well on pp70-75 (look on the Sparx Systems main site for links to download it).

James
Title: Re: [Q] Clipboard appears to be broken
Post by: kiwi on February 28, 2002, 09:59:08 am
Hi James,

cool thanks for such a quick reponse!

Putting my usability hat on I can't help point out that there is definitely a cleaner way to do this: particularly the use of the term 'Clipboard' is very confusing when the fairly basic task of copying and pasting doesn't work.

Can I suggest a new feature then: that whatever the contents of the clipboard is, is rendered to the clipboard (even fragments, which would be very useful) whenever the app switches out from the front. This would make everyone's life easier I think (I just wanted a portion of a diagram, so it's a bit messy to get a hi-res version of what I wanted...)

cheers!
Julian.
Title: Re: [Q] Clipboard appears to be broken
Post by: Steve_Straley on March 01, 2002, 09:35:08 am
James,

Wow... thanks.   I was beginning to think that no one downloaded it!

I've updated the front of the tutorial to go further into my "process" and am adding the CVS and Microsoft Project stuff as soon as I work out a few "kinks".   After that I will move into the USE CASE and realization links back to the Functional Requirements.   <whew>  So much to do, so little time.

Cheers,

Steve