On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 03:33:20 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/28/2015 6:42 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 23:44:55 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/28/2015 2:41 PM, rumbu wrote:
Pressing Ctrl-C in any *standard* dialog will copy the text
to clipboard since
Windows 2000, even captions and buttons.
Nope. Doesn't work in the Environment Variables dialog box.
Doesn't work in
the Thunderbird about box. Doesn't work in the Notepad about
box. Doesn't work
in the IE about box. Or any of the IE dialog boxes I tried,
like Internet
Options.
I haven't found ANY where it works.
Hmmm. I'm don't know what you're doing differently from the
rest of us.
Certainly, the text in about boxes isn't usually selectable,
but aren't we
specifically talking about the dialog for editing environment
variables here? If
I open the environment variable dialog, select Path, and click
on the edit
button,
Try selecting any text in the dialog box before opening another
one with the edit button. Or try any of the ones I mentioned.
Well, I would have thought that it was clearly designed with the
idea that you'd click on the edit button to edit it. And you can
copy and paste the data from the edit dialog. So, not being able
to edit the fields in the first dialog really isn't a big deal
IMHO, though what they give you with the edit dialog really isn't
any better than simply being able to edit it in the initial
dialog. So, in that sense, maybe they should have just made it
editable in the first dialog rather than having to open one
specifically to edit it, though it would be far better to
actually make the edit dialog sane rather than just a simple text
box. Fortunately though, it sounds like the edit dialog is
finally becoming sane with Windows 10.
> And I can now edit that text and copy it back into the edit
field for the Path variable, which is stupid to have to do but
is a lot saner than editing the text in the edit box directly.
Surely a dialog box stinks if you have to paste its contents
into an editor to edit it.
Well, of course, it sucks. Having the PATH be edited via a single
text field isn't even vaguely user friendly. Copy-pasting to edit
it just a way to make it slightly more sane. What it really needs
is to be revamped in a manner similar to what they've apparently
finally done with Windows 10.
- Jonathan M Davis
