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Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« on: September 07, 2015, 04:24:04 PM »
I haven't been sequencing for the last couple of weeks so I apologize changes have happened to how XL works.  I was playing in 4.2.7 today and have been having some weird behavior when copying and pasting effects.  If I'm not mistaken, when I used to paste an effect between two timing marks the effect would usually paste into that space.  In 4.2.7 when I am pasting in the space between two timing marks I am getting different behaviors each time. 

One time it pasted the effect, but the length of time of the effect went beyond the end of the sequence.  The effect was about 2 seconds in a 20 second sequence.  Another time the effect was pasted in the space before the gap between the timing marks where I put the cursor to paste.  Another time it pasted the effect into the layer below the original but with a length that went beyond the ending timing mark.  A couple of times it pasted the effect on the beginning timing mark, but looked to also end on that same timing mark.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2015, 04:46:39 PM »
There were changes done in 4.2.6 that could have affected things like this but we fixed everything we could find in 4.2.7.  What you are describing below was happening in 4.2.6 but I can't make it happen in 4.2.7 so you'll need to find a repeatable scenario and give us the files.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2015, 04:56:41 PM »
i have also had a little issue similar to this..

When clicking in the grid the cell immediately to the left of the mouse pointer is highlighted, and not the one I clicked on...

I am compensating for it but didn't notice that in 4.2.6
Sometimes the paste inserts on the clicked cell, and sometimes on the one to the left.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2015, 05:18:57 PM »
I don't believe anything is broke in 4.2.7 that was working in 4.2.6.  You're gonna have to prove it.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2015, 05:49:47 PM »
Hi Gil

You are more than welcome to pop over for a cup of tea (or coffee) and see..

Or hopefully the attached videos will show what i mean about the selection of the cell appears to be off a tad!!!

you can see in 4.2,6 i can click anywhere in the cell and it selects OK
in 4.2.7 even when click in middle of cell the one on the left gets highlighted...

Bit weird i will admit, but is repeatable


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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 05:56:58 PM »
I don't really want videos I want the files to reproduce your setup.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 05:59:09 PM »
By the way I can't see anything in the videos they are too small.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 06:43:28 PM »
I noticed copy and paste was acting weird today as well.  I'll look closer into it later tomorrow. 
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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 07:34:08 PM »
Having issues too. The last version no issues, in the current. Copy and paste not working, or not paying attention to timing marks.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2015, 07:53:31 PM »
Rolled back to 4.2.6 and all the issues went away.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2015, 07:56:35 PM »
I cannot reproduce the cell selection that can be seen in the videos posted above.  I can also cut and paste effects without any issues too.

I'm running the 4.2.7 release under Mac OS.

Post you sequence files as Gil is asking so that your set up can duplicated to see what's going on exactly.
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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2015, 07:58:15 PM »
Oh you know what....I forgot you guys don't have the fix yet.  Release 4.2.7 is when all the new logic went in.  Steve already found the bug and I fixed it yesterday.  I got my releases mixed up and forgot you aren't working with what I am.  Dan restructured a lot of code to remove using pixel position to determine where effects start and stop and changed it to use time in milliseconds.  We tried to catch everywhere that was impacted but missed one thing which is this bug that only occurs for a single cell selection.  The changes Dan added were necessary because it fixes some other bugs.  So just push Sean to release the fix. :)

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2015, 08:20:47 PM »
Thanks Gil, for letting us know we are not all crazy.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2015, 08:44:02 PM »
Yeah it was making me crazy cause I was thinking darn it I thought I fixed that problem...lol.

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Re: Funny Cut and Paste behavior in 4.2.7
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2015, 04:49:33 AM »
That's great, thanks Gil.