Newbie question about the clipboard
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:50 pm
The ref manual contains the following paragraph on page 42:
"Having Cut or Copied a selection you can then go to any other part of your schematic or to any other
schematic you have open and paste in a copy of the clipboard contents. Copies are pasted at the
current mouse location. You can hold ALT while pasting to have pasted elements stack up at the
location of the source elements." (emphasis added)
As near as I can tell, FS will only allow one schematic open per running instance of the program. But if I select/copy in instance A, then switch to instance B, ctrl-V does nothing and 'paste' is grayed out in the menus.
I've been able to select/copy in a schematic, load a different schematic in the same instance and paste there, but doing that to move chunks from one schematic to another (or, more to the point, merge chunks from multiple schematics into one) seems a bit fiddly...the phrase "kabuki dance" keeps jumping into my head.
Am I missing something?
"Having Cut or Copied a selection you can then go to any other part of your schematic or to any other
schematic you have open and paste in a copy of the clipboard contents. Copies are pasted at the
current mouse location. You can hold ALT while pasting to have pasted elements stack up at the
location of the source elements." (emphasis added)
As near as I can tell, FS will only allow one schematic open per running instance of the program. But if I select/copy in instance A, then switch to instance B, ctrl-V does nothing and 'paste' is grayed out in the menus.
I've been able to select/copy in a schematic, load a different schematic in the same instance and paste there, but doing that to move chunks from one schematic to another (or, more to the point, merge chunks from multiple schematics into one) seems a bit fiddly...the phrase "kabuki dance" keeps jumping into my head.
Am I missing something?