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# Two weird WINE/Notes issues

I've been using my Notes client in WINE for over a week now, and it's going great, except for two small niggles:
  • Tab key moves you forward from field to field as expected, but SHIFT-TAB doesn't work, so you can't skip backwards through fields.

  • You can't copy text from the field values pane in the Fields tab in the Document Properties dialog. I always use that tab as a shortcut to getting to field values inside a Notes document, for some reason with WINE, if you right-click and 'Copy' a selected chunk of text, it doesn't place the selected text in the clip board. In fact, the clip board isn't changed at all.
WINE reimplements Win32 APIs, so you can get an odd perspective on just what a Windows application (like Notes) is using and doing, by seeing how it interacts with WINE. I presume the SHIFT-TAB is interfering with another key binding, but why can you copy to the "clip board" from one place, but not from elsewhere? Makes me wonder what deep voodoo is going on in a Notes property box? Weird.

File under: notes/domino : {2004.10.11 22:24}

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