Pasting re-orders the stack on paste, despite unchecked preference

Question

Pasting re-orders the stack on paste, despite unchecked preference

joshgold22 opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

My main usage of flycut is to copy a batch of several items, and then paste them into their respective locations by repeatedly doing this sequence of keys.

Click to place the cursor, Cmd-Shift-V, Enter
Click to place the cursor, Cmd-Shift-V, Right-arrow, Enter
Click to place the cursor, Cmd-Shift-V, Right-arrow, Enter
...

(or I often do this backwards from the bottom using Left-arrow, rather than starting at the top.)

Now (1.9.4, 1.9.5) when I do this, even though I do not have "move pasted item to top of stack" checked, my stack gets shuffled. I wind up with the items in the stack shuffled, and I wind up repeatedly pasting the same item over again.

I can't tell if the problem is just moving around things in the stack, or if FlyCut may also lose track of the "pointer" (i.e., the next time I bring up the bezel with Cmd-Shift-V, I expect it to be showing the same item I just pasted, so I can move up or down one step from there.)

MarkJerde · Answer 1 · Mon Mar 30 2020 19:48:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi Josh,
You can see your position in the Flycut clippings list by the numbers at the bottom of the bezel.

joshgold22 · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 30 2020 21:13:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks, I was able to check, and, (with the preference unchecked) on paste the item is moved to the top of the stack and the pointer is moved to the top with it. This makes it difficult to copy and paste a sequence in order. (I assume it just means that the preference is "stuck"?)

MarkJerde · Answer 3 · Tue Mar 31 2020 09:00:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Did you try checking it and unchecking it? Maybe even check it, quit Flycut, start it up again, make sure it’s checked, uncheck, quit, start, make sure it’s checked? Kind of the old reboot-the-computer fix to magically solve all crazy things. :-)

joshgold22 · Answer 4 · Sat Apr 04 2020 02:15:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Some restarts of the app didn't help. I'm due for an reboot and will follow up after that.

joshgold22 · Answer 5 · Tue Apr 07 2020 02:05:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

After reboot, I still have the problem. I'm seeing a little more detail as I replicate, and I realized that a *separate* bug I've been seeing for a long while and planning to file may possibly be related. The *separate* bug is that quite often the Enter key does not paste when the bezel is shown. The result is random (e.g., if I type Control-shift-V, Return over and over again, it sometimes pastes, and sometimes just gives an error beep.) It fails something like half the time, but not in strict alternation. Again, may be unrelated. The new observation about reordering is that when I (successfully) paste, the item is actually *copied* to the top of the stack rather than moved. As reported before, the pointer is moved up to position 1 as well. It thus leaves multiple copies of the pasted items around in the stack. (If you request, I could file a separate ticket for the failures to paste.)

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