Windows10 guest on OSX host.
Generally Clipboard transfers Windows->OSX work fine (and have always done so).
Have just started using a piece of software ( TMCL-IDE 3.0) from which I can copy fragments of text to the Windows Clipboard and then paste them again within Windows. However if I try to paste them in OSX there is nothing there. Yet clipboard transfer is working fine and have confirmed by then copying something from a different source in Windows to paste in OSX.
How can this be?
(Incidentally can copy/paste from OSX into TMCL-IDE 3.0 on the Windows guest.)
From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
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mpack
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
Most likely whatever the app puts on the clipboard isn't text. E.g. it's rich text and whatever you're pasting into can't handle it. Or, it's just a stub to begin a COM protocol transaction. The latter has been a problem with Excel.
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
Just as mpack said, the clipboard contents are not simply unicode text.
Workaround: Copy from TMCL-IDE 3.0, paste into Notepad, copy from Notepad, paste in OSX.
Workaround: Copy from TMCL-IDE 3.0, paste into Notepad, copy from Notepad, paste in OSX.
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
OK. So a known thing.
Passing via Notepad works great.
Thanks!
Passing via Notepad works great.
Thanks!
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
If you want to see what your program puts in the clipboard, try the FreeClipViewer (I'd go with the "portable version"). Great little tool...
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
Here's an example clipboard file made using FreeClipviewer, @socratis.
In the Preview section it looks like what I copied. Not sure how to interpret what's in the other sections?
Either way, doesn't paste into OSX.
In the Preview section it looks like what I copied. Not sure how to interpret what's in the other sections?
Either way, doesn't paste into OSX.
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
I didn't say that I could interpret it either, I simply said that it's a cool little app 
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
Odd, the output from Free Clipboard Viewer seems to show both text and unicode text formats with the locale set to UK (I think).
Not sure why there is a reference to an AFX_WM_ message that according to the VS2015 docs is flagged as "Microsoft Internal Only - Do Not Use".
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Not sure why there is a reference to an AFX_WM_ message that according to the VS2015 docs is flagged as "Microsoft Internal Only - Do Not Use".
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Re: From a certain Windows source clipboard doesn't work
Might have downloaded Windows 10 from UK Microsoft store (whilst in France).
(And set to UK keyboard etc,)
Copy/pasting from a German application.
(And set to UK keyboard etc,)
Copy/pasting from a German application.