On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tom,
Took me a minute to figure out how to run 2 instances of CHIRP. Here is what I found out.
The first of these two patches changes the clipboard target to the normal OS clipboard. Can you test this on Windows? I don't have a Windows dev environment set up.
This patch works.
The second patch is another attempt to solve the same problem. It stores the clipboard data outside the app. This feature exists so that the clipboard data can remain available after the source app is closed, but my thought is it might solve the cross-instance paste issue. Can you test this patch separately from the first one?
This patch does not work.
Jim KC9HI
Thanks for your help! That was much simpler than learning how to test on Windows myself.
I'll respin the first one with a proper issue number.
Wonder if it would be valuable to implement the second one just so someone can close and relaunch Chirp without losing their clipboard data. On the other hand, if they paste hours later into something else they'll get a bunch of gibberish. The paste data is essentially useless outside of Chirp (it's a pickled Python object).
Tom