MessageIan, Legacy does not use the windows clipboard, but its own, which is why you can only copy/paste into the same database.
Yes Legacy is Access based. Actually in this respect, it does not matter that Legacy is Access based as the restrictions are the same for all well constructed databases. They are there to stop the users corrupting their own files, and should be welcomed. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Ian GARDENER Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:34 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors Hi, No matter what i do, I cannot cut and paste from one file to another. I can copy/paste within the same file but not using two different files. Specifically: On the let screen/split I have myself open in the new database, on the right screen I have myself open in the old database. In the right screen I open up details, open an event, then copy it to the clipboard. I then close that screen (have to to proceed), click on the left database and the clipboard in now empty. It doesn’t matter wether I save or cancel in the old database, the result applies, “THE EVENT CLIPBOARD IS EMPTY”. So I set up two new databases in split screen and tried the same thing, same result. The clipboard does not hold data once I click on the different file in the other screen. Someone mentioned access (is Legacy accessdb based?). So in access database I tried essentially the same thing and same result. Ian G From: Carl Cox [mailto:ct...@centurytel.net] Sent: Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:36 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors <<This works if both splits are open to the same file (regardless of individual) but I cannot get it to work when each split is open to a different file L Ian>> We must be talking past each other, because I often use this method within a single file and between different files in a split screen. The only requirement is that you "save" the individual information as it currently is, regardless of when it was entered. That saved information becomes a template from which you can use any piece of information you wish, in any database. I don't know if Legacy remembers the last one saved when it is closed - it very well could. I have 2 files that I record current happenings in, identically in both, and I call up split screen, enter the personal information in one database, save it, then go to the other database and copy each newly entered information by clicking on the field name. Is that how you are trying to use this method? Carl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
