A Question About Pasting Rungs

[Mike Nash]

I have unintentionally done myself dirty a few times when copying and pasting rungs. I am pretty sure the reason is my slow, outdated, much-beloved hardware/software. I see in the Help that any highlighted rungs will be replaced by a Paste operation. I did not realize this before, probably because I have never intentionally had any rungs highlighted. The highlighting issue I have mentioned before - it just gets stuck and takes bit of mystical stuff I manage to stumble upon to get it un-highlighted. Since that can be rather obtuse, I have taken to inserting a blank rung where I intend to paste and that usually takes care of it.

Is there anywhere I can disable the paste-over (replace highlighted) mode?

I'll understand if not since I know the vagrant highlighting may be highly user specific. Thanks!

P.S. Even DS5 will paste over and I have never realized that, but never had any issue since the highlighting has never gotten stuck there.

[Dean]

Here's my experience.
If the entire rung is highlighted then it gets replaced with the rung in the clipboard. If not then it pastes the new rung above the cursor and moves the rung with the cursor on it down one row.  Hitting Esc "un-highlights the rung, and leaves the cursor on that rung. Hitting the down arrow key moves the cursor to the next rung, and hitting up arrow key moves it to the previous rung.

[plcnut]

I have not seen the "Sticky highlighted rungs" issue for a long time.
Are you still having problems with rungs being selected even after clicking off of them in DMD 1.4.3?

[franji1]

I have not seen the "Sticky highlighted rungs" issue for a long time.

We fixed something like this in 1.3 in April, 2014.

[Mike Nash]

I am using 1.4.3 yes. I am also using an old Gateway Laptop and WinXP and it has been hinted that it's probably too antiquated, but it is just a babe compared to me so...

http://forum.hosteng.com/index.php/topic,1747.msg14687.html#msg14687

But I am simply wanting to know if I have an existing means to disable the paste over. If not, oh well, and I sure would not expect this to get added just because I have a particular issue.

(I like the Gateway because the touchpad just works. I have seen multiple Dells randomly start moving the cursor and even clicking when in an electrically noisy environment. I have good resolution w/o being too tiny. I have real ports and pcmcia slots. It just wants to be quicker is all.)

[Mike Nash]

To get the highlighting shown below. I clicked on Rung 1 at the left where the rung number is. The while holding the shift key I left click on Rung 2 at the number. You will note I now have 1 and 3 highlighted. Now if I Ctrl-C and go somewhere else in the same program block or another and click on an empty rung where the contact should be and then Ctrl-V I have just managed to get two different behaviors. The first time, only rungs 2 and 3 were pasted. Then, pasting into a different area, it would paste rungs 1, 2 and 3.

The second image, I'm not entirely sure how I just got that other than highlighting in two subprograms at the same time.

This is another XP desktop BTW.

"Who ya gonna call?"

[franji1]

But I am simply wanting to know if I have an existing means to disable the paste over. If not, oh well, and I sure would not expect this to get added just because I have a particular issue.

Sorry, no.

Based on previous posts about your computer (this is just a guess), but it could be that your Ctrl key state is getting "stuck" or "mis-reported", causing faux Ctrl+Mouse Clicks to occur that "select" rungs (just a guess).

[Mike Nash]

Sorry, no.

Based on previous posts about your computer (this is just a guess), but it could be that your Ctrl key state is getting "stuck" or "mis-reported", causing faux Ctrl+Mouse Clicks to occur that "select" rungs (just a guess).

I don't think so. Two different machines entirely (but similar age and software) and Ctrl works as expected on everything else.

But I have had my browser doing weird things in the past only to discover I had my feet propped up, but my knee was holding down the Ctrl key making the scroll wheel zoom instead.