[chirp_devel] [PATCH 0 of 2] Cross-instance copy/paste in Windows. ATTN: Jim

[Tom Hayward]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Jim Unroe <rock.unroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Took me a minute to figure out how to run 2 instances of CHIRP. Here
> is what I found out.
>
>> The first of these two patches changes the clipboard target to the normal OS
>> clipboard. Can you test this on Windows? I don't have a Windows dev environment
>> set up.
>
> This patch works.
>
>>
>> The second patch is another attempt to solve the same problem. It stores the
>> clipboard data outside the app. This feature exists so that the clipboard data
>> can remain available after the source app is closed, but my thought is it might
>> solve the cross-instance paste issue. Can you test this patch separately from
>> the first one?
>
> This patch does not work.
>
> Jim KC9HI

Thanks for your help! That was much simpler than learning how to test
on Windows myself.

I'll respin the first one with a proper issue number.

Wonder if it would be valuable to implement the second one just so
someone can close and relaunch Chirp without losing their clipboard
data. On the other hand, if they paste hours later into something else
they'll get a bunch of gibberish. The paste data is essentially
useless outside of Chirp (it's a pickled Python object).

Tom