 XTREE Copy / Paste
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04 Aug 23 11:35 AM
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Our customer wants to be able to paste into this cell. Control-V already works. How can we improve on that.
Maybe a pop-up like we get on infld?
In theory, the XTREE right-click menu for each cell should automatically Copy Cell and Paste options, similar to what you get with INFLD. But there's a lot of configurability around the XTREE PopupMenu option, and there have been some bug fixes related to the context menu behavior, so let's start with what version of ATE or A-Shell/Windows you have and what you do see when you right click while inside of an editable cell. (Note that it has to be an editable cell, otherwise the Paste option is omitted.) If you don't get any context menu at all, try in one of the sample programs, like XTRA5, so we can decide if it is somehow program-specific.
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Re: XTREE Copy / Paste
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05 Aug 23 05:52 AM
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Joe Leibel
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I did not spot anything in XTRA5 that stood out as different than what I am doing.
Ver. 6.5.1724.1 1731.2 and others were tried in the past.
XTR'USETHEMES = 1
XTR'SHOW3D = 1
XTR'SHOWGRID = 1
XTR'GRIDSTYLE = 2
XTR'SCROLLTIPS = 1
XTR'ITEMLINES = 1
XTR'CTLNO = 0
FLAGS = 0
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'XYXY
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'COLDFX
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'EDITABLE
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'END
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'MODELESS
FLAGS = FLAGS + XTF'VARY
XTR'ITEMLINES = 2
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Re: XTREE Copy / Paste
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05 Aug 23 08:34 AM
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Assuming that are seeing the context menu in XTRA5, that seems to point the finger at the application program / XTREE configuration rather than some version or environmental issue. So I dug a bit farther into it and realized that you can get some feedback by activating the XTREE, GUI, and XDEBUG traces, starting with ...
102 08:13:47 <XTRA5:c8e> MIAME_contextmenu: hwnd=781366, main=112402, params=12240c, 1830176
103 08:13:47 <XTRA5:c8e> XTREE: checking contextmenu row=1 (98), col=4 (239), px=1, bPcklst=1
104 08:13:47 <XTRA5:c8e> XTREE: processing contextmenu: row=1, col=4, px=0
... followed by a bunch of messages as the menu is constructed from the PopupMenu definition...
119 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> MIAME_contextmenu: hwnd=781366, main=112402, params=781366, 1870170
120 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> XTREE: checking contextmenu row=1 (102), col=4 (233), px=1, bPcklst=1
121 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> XTREE: processing contextmenu: row=1, col=4, px=0
122 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> pmenudef-> 1390758
123 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> pmenudef: Try On,%VK_xF501%;Backorder (Now is the time for all good programmers to shorten their excessively long context menus),%VK_xF502%;Discontinue,%VK_xF503%;-----,;Shoplift,%VK_xF504%;Copy,$COPY;Print,$PRINT;-----,;Order all styles,$CBSET;Order all styles in category,$CBSETDEP;Cancel all styles,$CBRST;Cancel all in category,$CBRSTDEP;Undo,$CBUNDO
124 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> appendmenu item 1 -> Try On
125 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> appendmenu item 2 -> Backorder (Now is the time for all good programmers to shorten their excessively long context menus)
126 08:14:21 <XTRA5:c8e> appendmenu item 3 -> Discontinue
etc.
That led me to think of a possibility that I hadn't previously given sufficient consideration to -- that even the automatic context menu items might somehow be dependent on some kind of PopupMenu definition (which most of my sample programs have). I did however find that another sample program, XTRA9, has no PopupMenu definition, and voilà, also fails to display any context menu at all. I then tried adding the minimum possible PopupMenu (i.e. just a separator) ...
XT'COLDEF$ = XT'COLDEF$ + "0~0~x~H~PopupMenu=----,;~~"
... and now it displays Copy, Paste (if in an editable cell), and Filter options. So that can probably be considered a bug, or at least a shortcoming, i.e. that in order to get the automatic context menu options, you have to define a minimal PopupMenu. That at least gives you a workaround you can implement at the program level without requiring an A-Shell or ATE update, but I'll will definitely add it to the to-be-resolved list. I'll post a notice here with links to the update as soon as I can get to it.
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Re: XTREE Copy / Paste
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05 Aug 23 08:59 AM
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One more observation: perhaps easier than adding a dummy PopupMenu to each program, you can add any of the SBR=XTREE_xxxx options to your MIAME.INI ... That's probably why this went so long without being discovered; most sites activate one or more of those. Note however that in the ATE environment, they need to be in the ATE version of the MIAME.INI. The one related exception would be OPTIONS=XTAUTOFILTER which the server will pass to the client.
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Re: XTREE Copy / Paste
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05 Aug 23 09:46 AM
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I am not familiar with this. Where are the SBR=XTREE options in the documentation? or What exactly do I need to add to miame.ini?
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Re: XTREE Copy / Paste
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05 Aug 23 11:33 AM
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Just click on the link in the post above, or right here: SBR=XTREE_xxxxYou can also find them via "XTREE" in the index (XTREE > System Parameters) or Setup > System Parameters > SBR in the Table of Contents.
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