Minor IR502 copy issue

Post by **ElizabethD** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:50 am

I really love the new notes feature in IR502, thank you!
There might be a minor problem with copy (using the button at the bottom) out of the the keymoves tab. I searched if someone already mentioned this, but didn’t see it.
I think I copied keymoves info once in rev4 and it was ok, so this might be a new feature.
When I paste text into notepad/word/excel, the row of headings behaves as if it were 2 or 3 rows of Excel’s merged cells invention. All the keymove info is correct, but due to the funny sequence of the heading items, it doesn’t look too pretty and transposing the heading cells is out of the question. Suggestion: if this was/is in Excel, I’d keep the headings in one row, wordwrapped. If this is one of those VB grid controls then ??
Evidence:
# Bound
Device Bound
Key Device
Button Device
Type Setup
Code Hex Cmd EFC or
Key Name Notes

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:48 am

I don't follow. There is no copy button at the bottom of the KeyMove tab..do you mean clone?

Also I don't follow where you are copying from and then pasting into Excel..

If you can provide more details I'll look into this.

Mark Pierson · Post by **Mark Pierson** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:54 am

e34m5 wrote:There is no copy button at the bottom of the KeyMove tab

Lower left corner of the screen... copies the Key Moves "summary" to the clipboard.

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:59 pm

Oh..I've never used that..I copy and paste from the summary screen in IR.

The code in the copy button is a straight clipboard copy..that's why it looks the way it does.

The summary screen in IR is generated in code to keep the formatting clean.

Post by **ElizabethD** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:07 pm

Super! I never used Summary screen. Just saw it, it's good if you can live with tab separated values. Sure is better than the other way and complete system docs look good. Thanks a lot

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:41 pm

Just for fyi..what would be the ideal format in your mind. Ya never know what we could do

Post by **ElizabethD** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:21 am

e35m5 wrote: Ya never know what we could do

Oh, yes,

I do: understanding protocols, doing magic to give us black-box apps, and super upgrades! Some of us would be unemployed if all upgrades were that easy …

For me, Summary has perfect, visually correct, format (my message was muddy, sorry) and is sufficient.

Current transfer via clipboard button or copy of Summary into a text file looks drunk of course, due to tabs (not IR issue) and Bill Gates hasn’t yet invented a way to align data to headings in simple files. There is no good format for text files via clipboard . You can't put out grids and expect them to survive transfer to text files. CSV (comma separated values) and quoted strings would be less ambiguous in some situation, but not a dream either, and on overkill for IR info. Best strategy – do nothing other than the heading problem I mentioned. Or zap that button. Or reroute the button routine into the Summary.

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:25 am

Ok...I'll leave as is.... 8)

Post by **ElizabethD** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:34 am

e34m5 wrote:Ok...I'll leave as is.... 8)

Paul,
I saw no reason to disagree. But ...
This issue just bit me

,slightly.
Integration problem, I think.
I posted a message yesterday into the ExtenderCalc v300 thread that some stuff isn't working.
It turns out, that when ,in IR, the clip button is used to transfer keymoves data over to ExtCalc, IR's headings* fill columns A:B in rows 6-13.

In ExtenderCalc, my workaround was to delete those rows. Clearing the cells is not sufficient. It appears to me that ExtCalc aborts due to those IR headings. Once removed, translation to buttons took place.

*headings - see initial post, above.

So, in your spare time ...
Don't know what to suggest. I suspect that dropping the headings might be the simplest thing, UNLESS ExtCalc uses them, but I really doubt it (I think it's just paste with something enabled to translate text to columns).

The alternative might be for ExtCalc to ignore rows where, say, bound key or something is blank.

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:40 am

Clip button???

Post by **ElizabethD** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:44 am

Clip? clipboard? copy to clipboard? I dunno, it must have some name
The thingie in the left corner of the keymoves tab

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:52 am

Oh...I never use that button so I forget it's there. I'm not sure what you are asking for.

I don't believe that button was created for anything more than copy and paste with out a particular application in mind.

Besides why use ExtCalc when that functionality is in IR.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:05 am

e34m5 wrote:Besides why use ExtCalc when that functionality is in IR.

DSM is not in IR.

e34m5 · Post by **e34m5** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:09 am

It is if you have added that device.

gfb107 · Post by **gfb107** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 10:14 am

I have a URC-6131 with Extender 1. DSM (TV/1103) is a built-in pseudo device, not visible in IR.exe. How do I get IR to let me create/edit DSMs without using ExtCals?