Copy paste the colors TOO ?

[ikodan]

Hello,

That's really annoying that when I copy paste a part of code, the colors (background and text) don't copy paste too.

Can you fix this ? 

 

[ikodan]

I use the request page too, but I ask here if this function is already here. 

[terrypin]

I think you expect too much. Text is text and background is graphics!

The Windows Clipboard can hold text OR graphics, not BOTH.

If you want to copy the combination, you do what you've done here: copy/paste the image.

[ikodan]

Wtf, I'm not sure you understood, I speak about the background of the code (the purple color), and the text color. The template/theme of my code... It's good to make it more clean and pleasant, but if I copy past a part of code, the color go. If you understood, I can't agree your logic, when I copy a part of code it look like :

<IF VARIABLE Variable="%barre_changed%" Condition="\x00" Value="1" IgnoreCase="FALSE" _FORE="00FFFFFF" _BACK="00FF8080"/>

It's RLY ez to put something like "color=#165165"... Wait I see there is : _FORE="00FFFFFF" _BACK="00FF8080"

So why it don't copy ? 

 

[acantor]

Request this as a feature. 

 

I have a workaround: I defined hotkey macros to automate changing colours. For example, here is the code for switching the background colour to yellow.

 

Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ALT>e // Activate &Edit menu
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ARROW UP><ARROW DOWN> // Unfurl menu...
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <END> // Go to last item on menu
Repeat Start (Repeat 6 times) // Select "Background Color"
  Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ARROW UP>
End Repeat
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ENTER>
Wait for Window Title: Color
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <HOME> // Go to top left corner...
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ARROW RIGHT> // Navigate to Yellow
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <SPACE> // Select Yellow
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <ENTER> // Done!

<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ALT>e" _COMMENT="Activate &Edit menu"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ARROW UP><ARROW DOWN>" _COMMENT="Unfurl menu..."/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<END>" _COMMENT="Go to last item on menu"/>
<REPEAT START Start="1" Step="1" Count="6" Save="FALSE" _COMMENT="Select \"Background Color\""/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ARROW UP>"/>
<END REPEAT/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ENTER>"/>
<WAIT FOR WINDOW TITLE Title="Color" Partial="FALSE" Wildcards="FALSE" Indefinite="FALSE" Hours="0" Minutes="0" Seconds="2"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<HOME>" _COMMENT="Go to top left corner..."/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ARROW RIGHT>" _COMMENT="Navigate to Yellow"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<SPACE>" _COMMENT="Select Yellow"/>
<TEXT TYPE Action="0" Text="<ENTER>" _COMMENT="Done!"/>

 

With the macro, the task of restoring background colours is not too onerous. But I agree it would be best if MEP remembered the colours when copying, pasting, and duplicating.

[terrypin]

3 hours ago, ikodan said:

Wtf, I'm not sure you understood, I speak about the background of the code (the purple color), and the text color. The template/theme of my code... It's good to make it more clean and pleasant, but if I copy past a part of code, the color go. If you understood, I can't agree your logic, when I copy a part of code it look like :

<IF VARIABLE Variable="%barre_changed%" Condition="\x00" Value="1" IgnoreCase="FALSE" _FORE="00FFFFFF" _BACK="00FF8080"/>

It's RLY ez to put something like "color=#165165"... Wait I see there is : _FORE="00FFFFFF" _BACK="00FF8080"

So why it don't copy ? 

 

OK, your screenshot was of the command text, not the code, so I misunderstood.

Now that I'm singing from the same hymn sheet, I agree. IMO that seems an odd omission. The background code for a command gets copied to the clipboard and correctly  pasted to a text editor - but not to that macro or another one. It appears to be deliberately stripped out.

I don't use colours much, but if it's a regular part of your work approach then I'd do as you already have: request it as a feature.