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- CLIPBOARD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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- Problem: Copying, cutting or pasting using the clipboard is
- slow with Windows Applications. This is
- particulary noticable in MS Excel and other
- Windows applications.
- .
- Answer: Most applications that copy information to the
- clipboard copy data in multiple formats. In the
- case of Excel, 16 different formats. When the
- Windows clipboard is public, the computer must do
- additional conversion of data to the OS2 clipboard
- The solution to this is that if the customer can
- make the Windows clipboard private, the speed of
- cutting and pasting will be similar to that of
- DOS/Windows. The only problem with this is that
- anything copied from the Windows session cannot be
- pasted to OS2 unless clipboard data is exported and
- when trying to paste data copied from an OS2
- session, another WINOS2 session or a DOS Session,
- data must be imported. The only way to make a
- WINOS2 seamless session private is to make a
- permanent change removing 3 ";clipbrd" statements
- from the WINOS2 SYSTEM.INI file.
- The performance issue is being addressed. This
- will be made available at a undetermined future
- date.
- Problem: Graphics copied to clipboard from OS2 cannot be
- copied to a Windows application or graphics copied
- to the WINOS2 clipboard from a Windows application
- cannot be copied to an OS2 application.
- .
- Answer: This is normally a lack in about 50% of Windows
- applications. Older Windows applications only
- support DDBs (Device Dependent Bitmaps), while OS2
- always creates or uses DIBs (Device Independent
- Bitmaps). Since the format of DDBs and DIBs are
- different, Windows applications that only support
- DDBs can have problems in copying data to and from
- the public clipboard. Because some Windows
- applications may handle other formats than DDBs,
- all Windows applications that do not handle DIBs
- may not exhibit this problem.
- .
- Problem: DDE or OLE does not work correctly for Windows
- applications under WINOS2.
- .
- Answer: Some Windows applications use special Windows 3.1
- DLL (Dynamic link library) for DDE and OLE. These
- DLLs are backward compatible to Windows 3.0 and
- WINOS2. Make sure that DDEML.DLL, OLECLI.DLL, and
- OLESRV.DLL are in the OS2 MDOS WINOS2 directory or
- in the path. If you installed OS/2-2.0 on top of
- DOS/Windows, these files may be in the old
- directory. Otherwise, they normally can be copied
- from the installation disks of the Windows
- application that experienced the problem.
- For applications where DDE worked for DOS/WINDOWS,
- they should also work correctly under WINOS2. Some
- Windows applications did not support DDE very well,
- therefore if you are experiencing DDE problems with
- a specific application, call the application
- company regarding DDE Support.
- .
- Problem: OLE does not work between OS2 applications and
- WINOS2.
- .
- Answer: OLE is not supported under Presentation Manager.
- Therefore, OLE will not work outside WINOS2.
- .
- Problem: OS2 Clipboard does not recognize data that may be
- in private formats.
- .
- Answer: Even though the clipboard does not display or show
- data being available in the OS2 clipboard, it may
- be available to applications that support that
- private format.
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- Thank you for calling the OS/2 2.0 Support Line. Regarding the problem
- reported to the Support Line, we feel that this information may assist
- you in resoloving your problem. If you still require assistance, please
- call 1-800-237-5511, and reference your customer number and problem (PMR)
- number. Your Problem Record Number (PMR) should appear on the cover
- page of this faxed document.