On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:58 AM Peter Hull <peterhul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 14:59, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But when I worked on Windows it happened all the time. It was a weekly > > annoyance. > > > I know how frustrating this must be. I use NetBeans on Windows > (currently NB 18 and Windows 11) and I do not see this issue. In the > linked bug, there is some code which uses Robot to automate copy/paste > to notepad, which was said to be a reliable reproducer. But I still > couldn't get it to go wrong, even running it multiple times. > The only thing I can say (and I'm sure it's been mentioned before, > don't hate me) is that I have previously seen clipboard issues when > VirtualBox was running. So I suppose the question is - are those > people experiencing it absolutely sure they're not running something > else that might be interfering with the clipboard? > Pete > I wasn't running VirtualBox, but even so, it's only NetBeans. Cut and paste is working between everything else on the system, it is only when NB is involved that I see issues. It seems sometimes NB has it's internal clipboard and doesn't talk to the system clipboard until you do something to coax it back to working. Usually a copy from the About dialog will fix it, when the editor windows are broken with respect to the clipboard. Scott
