[cw-discuss] Clipboard problem in 6.1

[Timothy]

I'm wondering if this is related to the problem I'm having of not being 
able to paste charts from Excel into Word. When I try that, nothing 
happens, even though the chart appears in the office clipboard. This is 
the subject of ticket 110277.
--Tim

Jeremy White wrote:
> Yes, I agree that this is a big issue; it's our #1 priority atm.
>
> The catch is that if you install IE into the same bottle as Outlook 2003,
> this problem essentially goes away (although there are still a few bugs).
> That's why we're not being lynched more actively.
>
> We hate that IE dependence and are working to eliminate that need, hopefully
> it will come relatively soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
> Timothy Spaulding wrote:
>   
>> I think the issues with the RTF/HTML edit control and Outlook are bigger than just cut/paste.  I
>> cannot use Outlook 2003 because whatever is doing the rendering in the Crossover HTML Engine is
>> totally hosing the encoding of the content making Replys and Forwards unusable in Outlook.  I have
>> reverted back to Outlook XP, unfortunately.  
>>
>> Jeremy, you guys are so close, but this issue is still preventing me from upgrading to Office
>> 2003.  Let me know if you need any debug information.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> tims
>>
>>
>> --- Bleier Thomas <Thomas.Bleier at arcs.ac.at> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I'm currently evaluating Crossover Linux 6.1 Standard on my Ubuntu
>>> Feisty (7.04) to use Microsoft Office 2003. Basically it works very well
>>> - the only problem is the clipboard in Outlook.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cutting and pasting of text works in Word and also in Excel. It also
>>> works in Outlook if I use Word as Mail Editor. But I'm not able to use
>>> the clipboard in the native Outlook mail editor or in the Outlook mail
>>> view. When I try to use any clipboard function, no matter if it's cut,
>>> copy or paste, and no matter if I use one of the keyboard shortcuts or
>>> the context menu, nothing happens. Cut and copy do not put anything
>>> (new) in the clipboard, and paste does not paste existing text into the
>>> editor.  Clipboard works well though in the address and subject fields.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Because of that I suppose it has something to do with the RTF/HTML Edit
>>> Control. If I understand it correctly, in my configuration the
>>> "Crossover HTML engine" is used, since I only installed Microsoft Office
>>> in that bottle. It automatically created a win2000 bottle as far as I
>>> can determine, and it warns me about installing IE6 in this bottle,
>>> which I thought could be a possible solution.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anybody have similar experiences, or probably also a solution?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought about ignoring the warning and trying to install IE6 anyway,
>>> but want to make a backup of my setup first - is it enough to just tar
>>> the directory ".cxoffice/bottle_name" for backing up all the
>>> configuration?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> __
>>> /homas Bleier
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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