Hiya

If you click "Edit" on the menu on the top of a More Info window, in
these help subpages, a text copy of that page is immediately dumped
into your default text editor, likely notepad (though that must be
adjustable, coz mine dumps into another text editor I use, yet notepad
is still my windoze default editor), where you can readily cut and
paste it to anywhere.

Because of this route you can get JD to cut and paste with only a
coupla extra mouse button clicks.

From the main menu in Guide go HELP->Quick Info

you'll see the current Guide JD at top of screen, select EDIT in the
help screen menu again to get it into a text editor for cutting and
pasting. Other time formats appear at bottom of screen.

Basically, I think, Guide inherits this system from early DOS
versions, such that the help screens are in the same screen mode as
the planetarium drawings, a graphics' mode, such that the help screens
are actually bitmaps, not fonts, and therefore uncut-and-pasteable.

The info has to come from somewhere, though. It lives in the Guide
directory in an autogenerated ascii temporary file, which changes
contents every time a new help screen is generated, and it's this
that's bunged into the text editor of choice when you click EDIT.

I think.

It's summat like that anyroad.

Cheers

John

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "Ben Davies" <alhajoth@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Not sure if this is possible for you to program, but I would like to
> be able to copy the Julian Date from the Time Box to the clipboard
> using the mouse.
>
> And, what would be really convenient is to be able to copy any
> information out of any of the sub-windows. For example, the ftp
> locations of Henden and Skiff Landoldt photometry is in the help files
> and are neither html hyperlinks nor copyable to the clipboard. Ditto
> with stellar catalog designations.
>
> I really appreciate that the information is there. If if could be a
> little more more accessible, that would be even better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Davies
>