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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 9-Feb-2017 20:39:17
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If it's just the inability to copy the path string surely DOpus adds the functionality? |
Just tried to highlight path from windows on a couple of different Linuxes - on neither could you just highlight the text directly, probably for the reasons Andy specified.
You could right click and copy path/text. Again, as Andy said, this would be up to the individual app to offer it, or perhaps a commodity to grab info from the system list of open windows._________________ Happiness is mandatory. MindSpace: MindMaps and UML diagrams for OS4
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 10-Feb-2017 13:50:23
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What? System wide copy, paste and/or a system wide 'clipboard' hasn't been implemented and is "not possible"! |
It would be useful and at times I have needed it.
Well usually when you copy it is in some kind of string gadget or editor so is under program control. And the program knows the position and sizes of the characters there. For something like a window title bar, other window text or an icon name it is slightly harder. Yes Intuition rendered the text there. But the program responsible such as Workbench doesn't cater to text selection that way. Intuition could do it by logging text renders to allow for this which would pull more resources. But so could Workbench since it would have a text database.
Testing OSX (10.5) I don't see it doing it there either. Unless it has its own key shortcut. And on Linux... well like with Windows there is a separation between the CLI and user interface. Windows is stuck at KS1.3 level with no history buffer. And on Linux you can Ctrl-C text but must Right mouse->Paste into a CLI. So at least we have integration with AmigaOS.
Do you remember PowerSnap? That does this. System wide text copy. As good as it can. We just need an OS4 version.
http://aminet.net/package/util/cdity/PowerSnap22a
Window titles could be looked up and other text could be inside a linked list of gadget objects. So it should certainly be possible.Last edited by Hypex on 10-Feb-2017 at 02:12 PM.
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 11-Feb-2017 1:04:31
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And on Linux... well like with Windows there is a separation between the CLI and user interface.
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No there isn't, the clip board is just as global on linux as on AmigaOS. in a terminal you need to use Shift-CTRL-C and Shift-CTRL-V rather than plain CTRL-C CTRL-V due to the obvious consequences of CTRCL-C. Linux is also 'limited' to only copying text where the src appliaction suports it (try copying the text in a tab title on chrome for example). It's more powerful though in that clips can be multiply encoded and some destinations like open office can should choose formatted ot src code versions (usually requires the original src program to be running, so I'd guess there must be some kind of call back hook).
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 11-Feb-2017 1:28:57
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No there isn't, the clip board is just as global on linux as on AmigaOS. in a terminal you need to use Shift-CTRL-C and Shift-CTRL-V rather than plain CTRL-C CTRL-V due to the obvious consequences of CTRCL-C. |
See that's what I mean. It doesn't use the same key combo. Needing to press another key just gets in the way so I just use mouse menu. In any case usually a paste applies only to the terminal line or some editor running within so a "break" shouldn't affect that. I press Ctrl-C out of habit a lot and no editor has "broke" so far. I just get no response.
Of course that's them choosing the old fashioned DOS/Windows PC copy and paste shortcuts. When the Windows key should have replaced that years ago. At least Apple is like Amiga that way.
One thing that annoys me is dragging a file in to a Linux terminal. It doesn't select the window like in AmigaOS. And also the file isn't guaranteed to work if it isn't a normal path but in desktop path. But that's another story.
I have noticed that doing copy file on desktop can put the file path in the clipboard. Which is handy. Perhaps a context menu for a file copy doing this would be useful on AmigaOS. |
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 11:06:06
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... It isn't possible to do that, as displayed text is just graphics.
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When the OS was coded, someone must have typed it in as text. So why is it converted to a graphic at all?
On other systems it is also no problem to copy/paste such text strings - I don't see why this is a problem for the coders of AOS.
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Copy and Paste requires extra code that knows what the origial text is,
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Again: why is the text converted to graphic at all? Leave it as text and copy/paste works for this as well as it does at other locations...
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which will be custom on a per aplication basis,
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Not sure if I fully get what you mean here - I was talking about the OS - not about third party software...
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or you would have to replace all text rendering with gadgets that can handle the input,
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Just don't render the text in the first place. Then it should work like it already does at so many other places.
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and there was already a complaint about text speed earlier in the thead....
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 11:10:19
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... If it's just the inability to copy the path string surely DOpus adds the functionality?
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I'm using DOpus 4.16 and this version doesn't allow to highlight, copy and paste the paths in the lines below the lister windows. Unfortunately not._________________ Ciao
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 11:56:23
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| @Dandy
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Again: why is the text converted to graphic at all |
yes, this is a bit puzzling. contemporary systems usually allow to extract path one way or the other, even if its not granted that a particular gui supports simply copying it from address bar. |
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 12:11:42
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Daedalus wrote: @BigD
... What there *isn't* is a method of copying and pasting text that isn't part of a gadget, e.g. requester text, window titles, screen titles, since they're text rendered to a bitmap that the system has no real awareness of at that level. Even Windows doesn't let you copy and paste window titles, or any text that's not specifically displayed in a copyable form.
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Perhaps a "method of copying and pasting text that isn't part of a gadget" would not be needed at all, if it would be generally agreed upon only displaying all paths and/or error messages at locations where the text can easily be highlighted and copied. "Paste" is not really needed here - I don't want to insert text in the requester. I just want to be able to e.g. highlight & copy an error message and insert it elsewhere - e.g. in a computer forum where I am looking for help. Up to now, I have either to write the error message down on a sheet of paper and then re-type it manually in the forum posting, or I make a screenshot of it and show that on the forum.
But as most fora require photos/screenshots to be linked from a place on the web, I need a webspace first where I can upload the screenshot to and post a link to it on the forum.
This process is really too time consuming and too annoying in 2017 from my POV.
It would be much easier if I could highlight & copy the text of e.g. an error message and then being able to paste it to my forum post!
Hey - that's what computers were originally made for - to make our lives easier! (And not to help us solving that kind of problems we wouldn't have at all without them...)
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Try highlight and copy HUD text in a game for example.
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As I rarely play games I will most likely not run into such difficulties. B.T.W. - what is "HUD"?
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But text in any text field can easily be copied and pasted system-wide on AOS.
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So simply displaying all paths and error messages in text fields instead of rendering and displaying them as graphics would solve my problem, as I already guessed?
It does not matter how you do it, just do it!!!
Where did this crazy idea to render such text strings and display them as graphics at all come from?
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As an aside, there was a utility for OS3 called PowerSnap that let you highlight any text on screen and it would attempt to copy the text to the clipboard. I presume it worked through some sort of simple OCR, but anyway, it was quite useful. I haven't tried it on OS4 but something tells me it doesn't have a hope of working with the new font rendering system.
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Wasn't aware of this option. Thanks for the hint. Will have to find, download & try it...
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 12:54:54
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Hypex wrote: @BigD
... It would be useful and at times I have needed it.
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So I'm not the only one...
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Well usually when you copy it is in some kind of string gadget or editor so is under program control. And the program knows the position and sizes of the characters there. For something like a window title bar, other window text or an icon name it is slightly harder.
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Is it really THAT hard to have a text field in all window title bars and to display the text there - by default?
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Yes Intuition rendered the text there.
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Why? What's that meant to be good for at all? Why not leave it in text format and display it in text fields by default?
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But the program responsible such as Workbench doesn't cater to text selection that way.
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Then WB should be made to cater for it.
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Intuition could do it by logging text renders to allow for this which would pull more resources. But so could Workbench since it would have a text database.
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Wouldn't you agree that if the text wouldn't be rendered as graphics in the first place, there would be no need to make Intuition log text renders ion the second place and resources would not have to be wasted?
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Testing OSX (10.5) I don't see it doing it there either. ... And on Linux... well like with Windows there is a separation between the CLI and user interface.
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I hope you don't want to tell me by this that therefore the Amiga also must not have this feature...
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Windows is stuck at KS1.3 level with no history buffer.
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Are you talking about Windows or M$-DOS here? But even if you're talking about DOS here, I seem to have a weak remembrance that you could very well use the F3-key or the cursor keys for up and down to repeat earlier Input...would have to check in my old M$-DOS 5.0 manual (if I can find it in the basement)...
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And on Linux you can Ctrl-C text but must Right mouse->Paste into a CLI.
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Unfortunately I had no chance to have a look at Linux, so far...
I have the "Amiga Unix Compendiuom" and wanted to test PPC Linux on my CSPPC at some point, but never understood what I have to download to get a working environment. Too many different bootstraps, kernels, distros and the like - much too confusing. Didn't have enough spare time to waste it that way...
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So at least we have integration with AmigaOS.
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Not sure if I fully get what you want to say with this...
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Will have to try this...thanks for the link...
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Window titles could be looked up and other text could be inside a linked list of gadget objects. So it should certainly be possible.
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Yeah - but has it got to be that complicated? Wouldn't it be easier not to render the text at all and to display it in text fields by default instead?_________________ Ciao
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 13:17:26
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btw, the functionality we are talking about is at hand in lubuntu and also in wanderer on aros (68k if you will), which in this respect also appears to be ahead of other options. speak of pure os3 compatibility. ;) |
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 14:10:11
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| Answering the original question... Inclusion of the latest SmartFileSystem and PartitionWizard: those are low-level, essential core components that are (and have been for a long time, maybe from the 4.0 pre-release version) part to the OS and that have limited functionality since 4.1 FE (PartitionWizard doesn't see the SFS partitions). It's a real pity that now they are available only as a component of a third-party commercial bundle.
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 14:27:09
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So why is it converted to a graphic at all?
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Just don't render the text in the first place. Then it should work like it already does at so many other places.
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How do you expect to read a section of text on the screen if it's not rendered? Telepaphic contact with the programs author / user?
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 15:16:09
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common, there must be a function to simply blit text (or strings), otherwise they would really have to be communicated to a user via telepathy. it wouldnt be a rocket science to implement path/address bar in an editable or at least copy-able manner. its been done on aros, it can be done on os4, this is simply a matter of gui design. arent there third party additions that provide this anyway? something called "filer" comes to my mind as possibility. |
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 18:15:22
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@broadblues common, there must be a function to simply blit text (or strings), otherwise they would really have to be communicated to a user via telepathy.
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Ofcourse there is, what do think "rendering text" actually means?
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it wouldnt be a rocket science to implement path/address bar in an editable or at least copy-able manner.
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Ofcourse not, every prgram that I use on AmigaOS (any flavour (well maybe not 1.3)) that has an editable address bar already has copy and paste, as that comes with the stringaclass and derivatives.
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its been done on aros, it can be done on os4, this is simply a matter of gui design. arent there third party additions that provide this anyway? something called "filer" comes to my mind as possibility.
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There's a big differentce between adding a single GUI element to the WB window GUI (which is very possible to do I'm sure) and global all text can be coppied solution.
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 21:52:27
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| @Dandy
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As I rarely play games I will most likely not run into such difficulties. B.T.W. - what is "HUD"?
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Sorry, Heads Up Display - in-game text, messages etc., which is usually overlaid on the game screen.
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So simply displaying all paths and error messages in text fields instead of rendering and displaying them as graphics would solve my problem, as I already guessed?
It does not matter how you do it, just do it!!!
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Yes, that would work, and that's how you can copy most (but not all) messages in Windows - the text is displayed as part of a text field. The problem is, especially for the classic machines, that doing it that way is much slower and more resource intensive than just rendering the text to a bitmap and forgetting about it. But it should be doable for OS4 - and relatively trivial I suspect - requesters could easily be modified to render the message text as a text field.
Without rendering the text as graphics though, all we have is DOS-like screens... And nobody wants that ;)
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 14-Feb-2017 23:19:49
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requesters could easily be modified to render the message text as a text field.
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Bear in mnd that requesters.class requesters display formatted text and as such the contents cannot be displayed by a simple "text field" certaily not anything a simple as a string.gadget (or even texteditor.gadget). Simplest way for requester might be a popup menu to offer a "Copy Requester Text" option.
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Without rendering the text as graphics though, all we have is DOS-like screens... And nobody wants that ;)
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Everything past a teleprinter, renders text as graphics to some degree, and you might even argue that the dotmatrix is a form of bitmap too....Last edited by broadblues on 14-Feb-2017 at 11:21 PM.
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 15-Feb-2017 6:15:26
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 15-Feb-2017 9:30:12
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Simplest way for requester might be a popup menu to offer a "Copy Requester Text" option. |
Simplest way would be th Windows way - accept and listen for the standard "Copy" keyboard shortcut, and copy the text to the clipboard when it is pressed.
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 15-Feb-2017 9:35:34
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Yeah there would be a few steps to doing that. Since Linux usually expects some kind of bootloader to be loaded by a BIOS. That then loads and bootstraps the kernel. Which tends to expect an initial ramdisk to boot into. That may or may not have kernel modules. That then locates the drives and what partition to boot off. At least these days. Sounds a bit convoluted. Be similar back then. |
But isn't the initial ramdisk just a solid block of files effectively? So no different to Kickstart, except it gets mounted and isn't in ROM?
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Re: Things i would like to be addressed by OS developers Posted on 15-Feb-2017 9:48:30
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But isn't the initial ramdisk just a solid block of files effectively? So no different to Kickstart, except it gets mounted and isn't in ROM? |
Technically yes. In fact, it's really like a HD image. Since it is a filesystem image. And contains a startup script that acts as a chain loader or kick starter, as it loads in disk modules, locates the partition to really boot off then passes control over to that.
Perhaps the closest we could compare it to on Amiga is RAD that actually boots up, does some stuff, then boots a Workbench elsewhere. Of course the RAD would need to be loaded first, so perhaps comparing it to an OS3.9/4 boot floppy would be better where it loads drivers then mounts the CD and boots that. |
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