Newbie question about the clipboard

[deraudrl]

The ref manual contains the following paragraph on page 42:

"Having Cut or Copied a selection you can then go to any other part of your schematic or to any other
schematic you have open and paste in a copy of the clipboard contents. Copies are pasted at the
current mouse location. You can hold ALT while pasting to have pasted elements stack up at the
location of the source elements." (emphasis added)

As near as I can tell, FS will only allow one schematic open per running instance of the program. But if I select/copy in instance A, then switch to instance B, ctrl-V does nothing and 'paste' is grayed out in the menus.

I've been able to select/copy in a schematic, load a different schematic in the same instance and paste there, but doing that to move chunks from one schematic to another (or, more to the point, merge chunks from multiple schematics into one) seems a bit fiddly...the phrase "kabuki dance" keeps jumping into my head.

Am I missing something?

[trogluddite]

Welcome to the forum.

It is possible to open multiple schematics within a single FS instance, but it isn't always obvious that this has happened because FS defaults to showing only one at a time in the workspace, and there are no tabs for choosing between them. However, you can switch between them using SHIFT+TAB, or use the 'Window' sub-menu to select, tile, or cascade them.

In fact, cutting and pasting is only possible between schematics running in the same FS instance. As you've found, it never works between different instances. I assume that this is because a custom clipboard is used instead of the Windows one, but all the same, it is an annoying limitation sometimes.

[deraudrl]

Welcome to the forum.

It is possible to open multiple schematics within a single FS instance, but it isn't always obvious that this has happened because FS defaults to showing only one at a time in the workspace, and there are no tabs for choosing between them. However, you can switch between them using SHIFT+TAB, or use the 'Window' sub-menu to select, tile, or cascade them.

Ah, thanks...yup, as you say, not obvious.