Copy broken?

beska

I'm having trouble with copy-paste. Yes, that simple feature that you normally use by just pressing control-c and control-v.

I select paste and I get an item that was previously in my clipboard. (some text, in this case.)

Okay...fine.

Now, I'm looking at one layer (everything else is hidden). I right-click on the copy button, and select copy to clipboard. I draw a box around what I want to copy, in my case, a coastline. It (what I've selected within the box) disappears from the screen, leaving items I haven't selected shown, so I'm fairly sure I'm successfully selecting the items. I right-click and select Do It, to copy the selection into the clipboard.

I then right-click on the copy button, and select paste. I get my text. (ie, I don't get what I just attempted to copy)

Various combinations don't seem to have any effect.

Has anyone else had this kind of issue? Am I doing something wrong? Vista causing issues? Other ideas?

Stormcaller3801

You have one more step to do after you click Do It- you need to choose the control point for the copied stuff- i.e, where do you want the cursor to be relative to the whole thing, in the middle, in the upper left, somewhere else, etc. Once you've done that, then it's saved to your clipboard. If you don't, when you click the Copy button again you're basically saying, "Nevermind- I want to do this instead."

beska

Perfect! That does it! Many thanks!

Monsen

One helpful hint here is to always keep an eye on the Command Prompt at the bottom (Especially if things don't work out as you thought they would). This way, it is easy to see if CC3 expects anything else from you for the current command, or if it is completed.

Stormcaller3801

Which is exactly how I figured it out when the same thing happened to me.