Re: Pasting text into dia diagrams. Was: Re: hello

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:58 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote:
> Hi Todd,
> 
> pasting text from the paste buffer in dia does not use 'ctrl+v', but
> rather 'ctrl+shift+v'.
> I never understood this design decision¹ either but it's the way it
> works for now.

Not so much of a decision as a dirty hack.

> ¹  I think it has to do with the fact that: 
>         1. A selected text object in dia always has keyboard focus;
> and
>         2. On top of that, dia always keeps short-cut focus. 

Exactly.  Used to be you could only copy/paste objects, then I added the
hack of extra text copy/paste shortcuts since it was a lot easier than
fixing the text input system.

> PS
> I saw a discussion about text objects and focus a few weeks ago, don't
> know what 
> has become of it. Again, it would be best to have text objects
> get/lose explicit 
> keyboard focus. This way it should be possible to differentiate
> between ctrl+v on a 
> text object *with* keyboard focus (namely, paste text from the
> system's pastebuffer)
> and ctrl+v on a text object without keyboard focus, namely a shortcut
> that doesn't get
> handled and should dripple through to the diagram keyboard handler to
> issue a paste 
> of what is inside a dia copy buffer.

It's getting there.  We now have a working splitup between text edit
mode and non-text-edit-mode, which allows us to let normal copy-paste
work on the text in text edit mode only.  Don't expect text selection
soon, though.

-Lars