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ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:17:00 GMT

Hi All,
I am having an issue where i am trying to copy partial text within a text box and paste it into another text box. It looks like the text doesn't even copy to the clipboard when I select "copy" and hence when I paste there is nothing! My colleague has the same problem. We are using ArchiCAD 22. If we copy and paste text from elsewhere, such as Notepad, it seems to work fine. It only happens when trying to copy from text box to text box within ArchiCAD. Is this a bug? Has anyone else had this issue?
Thanks

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:49:17 GMT

Works fine for me.

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:08:46 GMT

Hi, Mine still isn't working. Click on GIF below.

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Stress Co_ — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:10:12 GMT

Off topic:

LaszloNagy wrote:
(Click the GIF to play the animation)

How are you guys creating the GIF's?

On topic:
Does restarting your computer have any affect?

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:16:29 GMT

off topic - use an app like "Screen to GIF" you can search for it.

on topic - yes I have tried re-starting but no luck

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Stress Co_ — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:26:05 GMT

taz_mw wrote:
off topic - use an app like "Screen to GIF" you can search for it.

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on topic - yes I have tried re-starting but no luck

No ideas... works for me in AC22.

Re: Off Topic

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:29:19 GMT

Stress wrote:
How are you guys creating the GIF's?

I am using SnagIt 2020 Full version.

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:25 GMT

taz_mw wrote:
Hi, Mine still isn't working. Click on GIF below.

That is curious. Try to install the latest AC22 update if you have not already. Let's see if that helps.

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 08:25:07 GMT

I have AC20, 21 & 22. It happens in all these versions. The clipboard seems to working fins with other programs for text - it's seems it's only AC where text doesn't copy and paste.

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:07:51 GMT

I am wondering if this may be caused by some interference by another program.
Try to restart your system, then exit all applications that are not needed.
Then check if copy-paste works, because if it does then some other app is interfering with copy-paste or the clipboard somehow.

Re: ArchiCAD 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

James B — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:52:03 GMT

A random thought, but using "Western" encoding for the font and system language is similar? Could be a unicode issue?

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Pawel Spychala — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:40:34 GMT

The same happens to me in text boxes and labels. It is VERY ANNOYING. If I want to copy text within tex box or between different text boxes I have to do it via Word. The issue started in AC24. I have recent update, freshly installed Win10.

As a side note - Archicad's text editor is a decade behind the program itself and very awkward to use - there have been no improvements for ages!

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Minh Nguyen — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:30:05 GMT

Hi Pawel,

Thank you for the report and I am very sorry about the experience!

In Windows 10, there is a handy feature called Clipboard history. By pressing Windows key + V, a small dialog will open to let you see the history of copied clipboards.

I would like to use this feature for investigation: when you press Ctrl + C (or right-click > Copy), does the text appear in this clipboard history? We need to know at what point the process fails: at copying the text or at pasting the text.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,

Minh

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Looka — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:01:20 GMT

Hi,

Has this issue ever been resolved as I have it in AC25.

Can copy everything but cannot copy txt from one txt box to another.

I've done the win+v but it shows nothing when I try copy from txt box.

Can happily copy txt from a word doc or any other to the txt box thou.

Really appreciate it

Hank

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Looka — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:04:44 GMT

on that, interestingly thou if I just select the txt box and copy then open another txt box i can copy all that info into the new txt box. Or maybe I just never realized I could do that.

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Barry Kelly — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:29:05 GMT

I am not having any trouble copying part of text within a text box or to a new one - Archicad 25 AUS on Windows 10.

The Windows key +V clipboard history trick I think only works with the latest updates for windows 10.

My laptop does it but my PC which is not up to date does not.

What Archicad language version are you using?

Barry.

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Looka — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:42:28 GMT

Hi Barry,

English (Australian)

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Barry Kelly — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 03:09:36 GMT

When you say English (Australian) you mean the AUS version of Archicad.

I don't have the latest build (3011) but I don't think that will make a difference.

So if you are running exactly the same Archicad as me, I don't know why I can copy & paste and you can't.

Barry.

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Looka — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 03:42:39 GMT

Thanks Barry,

Yes the Australian version here.

We have two licenses in the office and when we load the same AC files on the other pc it works fine.

Bit of an enigma.

Re: Archicad 22 - copy and paste within text boxes

Minh Nguyen — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:30:11 GMT

Hello,

Thank you very much for the report! That's interesting!

I assume the issue only happen inside Archicad? If you copy a piece of text from Archicad to another software, does it work? What happens if you open Edit menu > Copy, does it work this way inside Archicad?

Since the problem seems to be machine-specific, I'm wondering if there might be any other software that could block/alter Ctrl+C hotkey?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,

Minh