Operating system, JDK version, please... Gj
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:13 PM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know it probably is the same as before, but today it seems worse in 12.4 > beta 2 than it was in 12.3. > > Cut and paste is such basic functionality that when it doesn’t work it is > a major source of frustration. > > Today I have been fighting cut and paste not working with NetBeans 12.4 > beta 2 for a few hours. Jumping through hoops to cut some text out of a > NetBeans editor and paste it into something else is not how I wanted to > spend my morning. > > This was discussed briefly in early February (see thread “System Clipboard > Issues”) > > It is has been reported here > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2159 < > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2159> > Though that description is perhaps incomplete. Both copying from NetBeans > and pasting to NetBeans are affected. > > If you are doing cut and paste entirely within NetBeans you may not see > the issue. It is only when you want to cut and paste between NetBeans and > an external program that it fails. And it fails very frequently in that > case. > > The sense I got was that NetBeans was trying to work around a bug in the > JRE by using it’s own private clipboard. I suspect the original JRE issue > is long gone and NetBeans is just creating more problems with an awkward > workaround for a problem that isn’t there. > > Regards, > > Scott > >
