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Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#2915 assigned defect
cannot save plain text file from Help Viewer
| Reported by: | Elaine Meng | Owned by: | Greg Couch |
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| Priority: | moderate | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Help System | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | chimera-programmers | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Notify when closed: | Platform: | all | |
| Project: | ChimeraX |
Description
... or at least I can't figure out how to do it.
I am trying to include a cxc script in a click-to-execute tutorial. However, seems dangerous to simply "open URL://http-blah-blah-.cxc" as an executable command and also would be nice to show people the contents first. However I cannot link to cxc file and then say to download as plain text from the Help Viewer, because it doesn't seem to allow that. If I use context menu to save file, it gets a bunch of mime junk it in it and then cannot be executed. Alternatively, user cannot copy the text of the whole thing to be pasted into a file either, or at least I can't figure out how to do it. I also thought there may have been a related ticket already but I couldn't find it. Reclassify as needed.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 6 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 5 years ago
| Priority: | major → moderate |
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| Summary: | cannot copy text or save plain text file from Help Viewer → cannot save plain text file from Help Viewer |
Fixed the text copying by switching from using the page's Copy() method to putting the page's selectedText() into the app clipboard (which means it's plain text, but at least the command text is reliably present). Leaving the ticket open for the part about saving a file from the log.
