Re: PSPP-BUG: bugs in PSPP 1.4.1 for Windows

[Ben Pfaff]

I don't understand why this takes any special implementation effort.
Are we using a custom entry field implementation instead of a
GtkEntry?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:33 PM Friedrich Beckmann
<friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> copy&paste in the variable view is not implemented yet. It works in the data 
> view for the moment.
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=49837
>
> > Am 11.03.2021 um 05:22 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:06 PM <matt@evansevaluation.com> wrote:
> >>> When you cut from Excel and paste into SPSS, what is in the cells that 
> >>> you cut from Excel?
> >>
> >> Variable names usually. (If the cell says "bRace_Variable" but what's 
> >> actually in the cell as showing in the formula bar is 
> >> "=CONCATENATE(E15,F15)" it will paste as "bRace_Variable".
> >
> > Oh, so just a string. I did not expect that to be a problem; I assumed
> > you were trying something complicated.
> >
> > John, when I navigate to the Variable View sheet in the Data Editor
> > and click on a Name cell and try to enter a new name, I can't get
> > Paste to work at all, whether the name is blank or whether I've
> > already typed a few characters, regardless of whether I use Ctrl+V or
> > Edit|Paste. Is something wrong here? I do see Paste working OK in the
> > Data View.
> >
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