Re: [Audacity-quality] Pasting text into labels failure

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

> From Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> 
> Mon, 26 May 2014 14:41:02 +0100
> Subject: [Audacity-quality] Pasting text into labels failure
>  > On 24 May 2014 03:58, Gale (Audacity Team) <ga...@au...> wrote:
> > Steve wrote:
> >> I don't often use labels, but have been doing so in the last couple of
> >> days (on Linux).
> >>
> >> When I first launch Audacity, no problem, but when I've been working
> >> on the project for a while, pasting text into labels stops working. No
> >> error message, it just  does not paste, as if the clipboard is empty.
> >>
> >> When this occurs, I can copy text from any sort of text document and
> >> paste into any text editor, word processor or e-mail, but not into an
> >> Audacity label. The right click menu has "Paste" greyed out and
> >> "Paste" in the Edit menu is also greyed out. although I definitely do
> >> have text on the system clipboard because I can paste into other
> >> applications.
> >>
> >> Is this a known issue? Is it reproducible by anyone else?
> >>
> >> I've not yet found any way to reproduce the issue on demand, other
> >> than working on a project for a while (20 mins? Not sure, I  loose
> >> track of time when I'm working).
> >
> > Are you adding more and more labels as time goes on?
> 
> No. I've mostly noticed it when I've been working on a project with no
> labels and then create one label and try to paste text into it.
> 
> 
> > Is the clipboard content static or changing over time?
> 
> I don't know what you mean.

I was asking if you changed the content of the system clipboard
(by copying something else to it) between the time of launching 
Audacity and noticing the issue.  


Gale


> > Are there any errors shown in the Terminal, or have you
> > run Audacity in gdb?
> 
> I've not tried in gdb, but will do so.
> 
> Steve
> 
> >
> > I don't know of anything like this on Windows.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gale
> >
> >
> >
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