What is happening to the clipboard?

[Piotr Grochowski]

Suppose I have the intent of quickly copying code from one file to another. So I select the code and as I'm moving my mouse cursor to the other tab I copy, then I switch to the other window and paste. Except it didn't copy the previous clipboard data, because for some reason it won't copy if the mouse cursor is even moved outside! The action of moving the mouse does not change the focus, so it should still copy as it's still in focus. This always gets me, and I haven't seen any other software do this.

[stahta01]

This is a random guess on my part; is the CB Plugin MouseSap enabled or disabled?

Tim S.

[Pecan]

Make sure that if you're using MouseDragScrolling (MouseDrag plugin) that "focus follows mouse" is unchecked.

Else when you move the mouse outside the editor, it focuses the window under the mouse. The marked area would have lost focus.

[windowsmaniac]

Hi Piotr,

have you already solved the issue? I'm having the same problem and none of the proposed solutions worked for me, unfortunately.

Greetings,
Emma

[oBFusCATed]

Please state your OS and CB version.

[Piotr Grochowski]

I move the mouse to the tab bar: text loses focus
I move the mouse above it: text regains focus

This is unexpected for when I try to quickly copy from the tab to another tab and it fails when the mouse is right in the tab bar.

Name             : Code::Blocks
Version          : 20.03-r0
SDK Version      : 2.0.0
Scintilla Version: 3.7.5
Author           : The Code::Blocks Team
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wxWidgets Library (wxMSW port)
Version 3.1.3 (Unicode: wchar_t, debug level: 1),
compiled at Nov  1 2019 07:49:42

Runtime version of toolkit used is 6.1.

Windows 7, and the only plugin I have is the compiler MinGW

[BlueHazzard]

I move the mouse to the tab bar: text loses focus
I move the mouse above it: text regains focus

Disable Settings->Environment Settings->Notebook  appearance->Enable scrolling with mouse wheel