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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Gilles, <br>
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I guess you did not understand what I wrote. I'll try to rephrase
it. DK does not behave as you expecte because in Windows the
software which copies to the clipboard must choose between file or
text format. DK chooses file format, so that you can paste in
Windows Explorer and other file managers, which is fine IMO.
Unfortunately, the price to pay is that it does not work in most
text editors. If you read my previous post, you'll see that DK's
behaviour is the same as Windows Explorer's: when you copy from
DK, you can paste in a file manager but not in a text editor, just
as like when you copy from Windows Explorer (or the other file
manager I checked).<br>
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Le 07/03/2023 à 11:12, Gilles Caulier a écrit :<br>
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<div>I can confirm that digiKam 7.9.0 under Windows the copy and
paste from icon-view to notepad do not work. I don't know
why...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 11:10,
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<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>
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à 11:04, Frédéric Da Vitoria <<a
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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>
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Notepad++ reacts as if there was no text to paste :<br>
<img src="cid:part1.iodDb9nZ.oMRuy4h4@free.fr" alt=""
class=""><br>
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and Gimp does the same :<br>
<img src="cid:part2.FaDk2P0o.5f6hss3b@free.fr" alt=""
class=""><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>
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Drag & Drop works fine both with Notepad++ and
with The Gimp.<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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InsideClipboard can save a digest of the clipboard
contents. I you find it useful, I can post digests
taken in different situations.<br>
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Regards<br>
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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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://i.imgur.com/1UF93ej.png</a>
- paste into VIM: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/SeGJLZ4.png" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://i.imgur.com/SeGJLZ4.png</a>
- paste into Kate : <a href="https://i.imgur.com/eltQHZ4.png" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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" moz-do-not-send="true"><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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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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