<div dir="ltr"><div>The Gimp error is normal. Gimp attends to find image data in clipboard, not test with url. Open an image in DK image editor, Edit/Select all, and Edit/Copy the image contents. Go to gimp and paste.gimp. Here it work like a charm under Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 11:04, Frédéric Da Vitoria <<a href="mailto:davito9w@free.fr">davito9w@free.fr</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hello,<br>
<br>
I just tested using Notepad++ and The Gimp. Copy / Paste does not
do anything. I tried using Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Ins and the "Copy" option
in the thumbnail's contextual menu, same results.<br>
<br>
Notepad++ reacts as if there was no text to paste :<br>
<img src="cid:186bb899993d0f1c2211" alt=""><br>
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and Gimp does the same :<br>
<img src="cid:186bb899994ced825ed2" alt=""><br>
The Gimp's message seems a little more informative, but
unfortunately the message is the same if the clipboard is empty or
if it contains no image data.<br>
<br>
Drag & Drop works fine both with Notepad++ and with The Gimp.<br>
<br>
Gilles, I was a little surprised that you expected Copy to copy
the name of the image instead of it's contents. From your answer,
I later realized that you expected Copy to work on both.<br>
<br>
Using Nirsoft's InsideClipboard tool, I found that DK did indeed
put something in the clipboard, but that Notepad++ and The Gimp
could not understand it. So I checked copying from different tools
as a source (an image viewer, Windows Explorer and so on). The
image viewer I checked copies the image contents, and works only
with The Gimp. Windows Explorer and another file manager don't
work with Notepad++ or with The Gimp, just like DigiKam. I could
not find any tool which would copy both the contents and the path
in such a way that it worked with Notepad++ and The Gimp. OTOH,
copying from DK towards Windows Explorer or another file manager
works.<br>
<br>
My conclusion is that the Windows clipboard is much less tolerant
than the Linux clipboard, the Windows clipboard contains either a
file (actually not the file itself, but data allowing to identify
it), text, image (or probably music and so on) but not several
types of data at once. So that copying from DK can either work
with a file manager, a text editor or a graphics software but not
with all at once. Currently, DK places file data. I have no idea
why software aren't as smart with the clipboard as with Drag &
Drop. Maybe some other text editor is smart enough to parse the
clipboard and fetch the file path from what DK places there?<br>
<br>
Note that DK does not always copy file data to the clipboard. If
you edit an image and select some part of it, DK copies image data
instead, which makes perfect sense IMO, so that you can then paste
to The Gimp.<br>
<br>
InsideClipboard can save a digest of the clipboard contents. I you
find it useful, I can post digests taken in different situations.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
DigiKam 7.9.0 <br>
Build date: 03/12/2022 14:49 (target: RelWithDebInfo)<br>
Revision: 99d199a7ebc10fae20afffc316ce34815f7d1c9d<br>
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Windows 11 64 bits<br>
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Le 07/03/2023 à 07:53, Gilles Caulier a écrit :<br>
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<pre>Hi all,
The copy and paste in digiKam is based on the QClipBoard class from Qt :
<a href="https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qclipboard.html" target="_blank">https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qclipboard.html</a>
In the album view, we take the item urls and we share the data to the
clipboard as text list. It's a very simple mechanism.
- paste into GEdit : <a href="https://i.imgur.com/1UF93ej.png" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/1UF93ej.png</a>
- paste into VIM: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/SeGJLZ4.png" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/SeGJLZ4.png</a>
- paste into Kate : <a href="https://i.imgur.com/eltQHZ4.png" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/eltQHZ4.png</a>
Note : the same mechanism is used with drag and drop...
Best
Gilles Caulier
Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 06:06, Shel Ritter <a href="mailto:shelritterbmw@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><shelritterbmw@yahoo.com></a> a écrit :
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<pre>Hey Robert ,
I was interested in seeing how people might respond to this question. I was surprised at Gilles's answer as I've never seen an option to copy an image file path in my older v7.3.0, wondering if it was a feature added in a newer build. I'm running it in Windows 7 and that 'Copy' menu option does just copy the image as would be expected. When I want to get the actual path to a file, I right-click a thumbnail and select the 'Open In File Manager' menu option which brings up Windows Explorer at the folder that contains the file. I would think Linux would bring up whatever file manager you have installed.
Shel
On 3/6/2023 9:31 AM, <a href="mailto:plowmail2010@gmail.com" target="_blank">plowmail2010@gmail.com</a> wrote:
Windows 7 64-bit
digiKam 7.9.0
Build date: 12/3/2022 2:49 PM (target: RelWithDebInfo)
Revision: 99d199a7ebc10fae20afffc316ce34815f7d1c9d
Branch: HEAD
Thanks, Gilles, but selecting a thumbnail and copy/paste into a text editor or Paint produces nothing.
Pasting onto the Windows desktop or into Windows Explorer produces a copy of the image's file.
Same result with copy/paste outside digiKam: select a file name in Windows Explorer or Xplorer2, copy/paste into text editor or Paint produces nothing. Pastes the file OK onto the desktop or into Windows Explorer.
Pasting into GIMP produced the message "There is no image data in the clipboard...".
Does the copy/paste work in linux?
Is this a peculiarity of the clipboard in Windows 7?
Robert DiGrazia
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