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[Brendan Kidwell <brendan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I see from my debug log file ...

DEBUG: Action: copy
DEBUG: Clipboard requests data as 'UTF8_STRING', we have a parsetree
DEBUG: Clipboard requested text, we provide 'plain'
DEBUG: Clipboard requests data as 'text/x-zim-parsetree', we have a parsetreeDEBUG: Clipboard requests data as 'text/html', we have a parsetree
DEBUG: Clipboard requests data as 'HTML Format', we have a parsetree

we are getting to here
https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-desktop-wiki/blob/master/zim/gui/clipboard.py#L416
, each time I type CTRL-C, and apparently sometimes putting null or an
empty string into the selectiondata.set_text() method, because Free
Clipboard Viewer 3.0 shows NO "Text" fragment on the clipboard
sometimes.
If I watch Free Clipboard Viewer 3.0, it seems I get a random selection
of various fragment types present and not present, each time I copy to
the clipbpard.
I'm putting this into the ticket in Launchpad.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 17:41, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> *Jaap*, I tried "Free Clipboard Viewer 3.0" just now ad on the very
> first try when I copied to the clipboard it looked like Steve's
> "bad.png". There was actual HTML data in the "HTML Format" and
> "text/html" fragments, but there was no plaintext fragment. Thus,
> when I paste to a plaintext widget in another program, there is
> nothing to paste.> 
> After repeating the Copy command on the exact same selected text, I
> got plaintext.> 
> I am going to try to build a 64-bit package tonight from the
> unreleased 0.66 code and see if it behaves any better (assuming there
> are 64-bit builds of all the dependencies which I can use), but I'm
> not expecting it to change anything.> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 10:07, Steve Chadsey wrote:
>> I am using Windows 8.1 64-bit and this issue has been an annoyance
>> for as long as I can remember (at least 2 years) throughout multiple
>> Zim releases.>> I've installed a visual clipboard viewer, "Free Clipboard Viewer 3.0"
>> which immediately shows the clipboard contents whenever something is
>> copied.  I'll run the program, then highlight something in zim and
>> attempt a copy with "Ctrl+C".  When something is successfully copied,
>> the viewer will show something like the attached "ok.png".  When
>> something is not copied, I'll see something like "bad.png".  I can
>> highlight some text in zim and hit "Ctrl+C" repeatedly and see the
>> contents of the clipboard contain nothing somewhere between 30-50% of
>> copy attempts.>> 
>> I would be happy to help troubleshoot further since the problem is
>> very reliably reproducible on my environment.>> Thanks,
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Marcio Tibirica
>> <marcio.tibirica@xxxxxxx> wrote:>>> This seems to be a HUGE problem that can put in risk the future of
>>> Zim on the windows platform. Does anyone know if all Zim users in
>>> 64-bit Windows environment are having the same problem?>>> 
>>> mtibbi
>>> ===========
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Em 23/04/2017 00:40, Brendan Kidwell escreveu:
>>>> This isn't definitive evidence, but the only Windows that I've
>>>> used Zim>>>> with for years has been Windows 8.1 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit. At>>>> least once per week I get bit by the copy-didn't-do-anything bug
>>>> or some>>>> other clipboard exception. I can't provide a list of steps to
>>>> reproduce>>>> and I can't come up with any ideas for how to make the problem go
>>>> away.>>>> 
>>>> I will continue to act as the maintainer the Windows build of
>>>> Zim with>>>> the most recent release of GTK 2 each time, but honestly this
>>>> is the>>>> main reason I've moved by work diary out of Zim and into PiggyDB.
>>>> (I am>>>> required to use Windows 7 64-bt for my job.)
>>>> 
>>>> Any help in fixing this would be appreciated. I know next to
>>>> nothing>>>> about GTK 2 and I am not going to be the person who solves it.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017, at 14:15, Marcio Tibiriçá wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Udo,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your case is really weird. Maybe something related to 64-bit core?>>>>> I have used Zim in both Win7 and Win10 without having problems
>>>>> with>>>>> copy and paste to other applications. But in my case both
>>>>> machines are>>>>> 32-bit.
>>>>> Maybe somebody else running Zim on Win 64-bit can bring some
>>>>> clue on>>>>> your issue.
>>>>> 
>>>>> mtibbi
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>  * bad.png 19k (image/png)
>>  * ok.png 23k (image/png)> 
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