Paste not working in Grasshopper

As the title says, I am unable to copy+paste components in Grasshopper, via CTRL+V or by Edit>Paste (or Paste in place, Paste in center, etc.). I do not get an error message or indication that it failed... but nonetheless, nothing happens. This has persisted for about a month now.

"Cut" works halfway - ie I push CTRL+X and a component will disappear - but I can not then Paste the component back in to the document.

Cut/Copy/Paste all work as intended in Rhino 5 itself, as well as all other programs I use.

Currently using Rhino Version 5.0 (5.1.20927.2230, 09/27/2012) and Grasshopper 0.9.00014, 32 bit.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Or found a solution for it?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 19, 2013 at 1:53am

Can you copy/cut from Grasshopper and paste in notepad? If yes, please post that xml here so I can try and paste it in my Grasshopper.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Nick Foley on January 19, 2013 at 8:33am

Unfortunately, attempting to paste in to notepad gives no result.

Is it possible that this issue is related to using 32-bit Rhino on a 64-bit system? Copy/Paste did work in Grasshopper months ago when I was using a 64-bit WIP build of Rhino.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 19, 2013 at 9:33am

So it's not Paste that is busted, but probably Copy. Can you save and reopen the file without issues? If there's a bug in the serialization than both Copy and Save should fail.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Nick Foley on January 19, 2013 at 9:38am

Saving seems to work fine. I have been using this install of Grasshopper frequently for about a month now, and the only issue seems to be this copy/paste bug.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 19, 2013 at 11:15am

It's peculiar. Recent versions of Grasshopper should have some copy-paste error catching build in as there were frequent problems due to other programs monopolizing the clipboard (Skype, Chrome and Firefox most notably). However that should no longer be a problem and even if it was a problem there'd have been an error message.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Robert Vier on January 19, 2013 at 9:05am

i also experience this behaviour,

then also the delete key does not work anymore. instead, rhino gets the input i do - though the GH window has the focus (apparently) ..

Permalink Reply by mcomart on November 13, 2014 at 4:18am

Hello Robert Vier, I was wondering if you managed to fix this issue about Rhino getting the input the GH window should get?? I have the same problem right now... what did you do?

Permalink Reply by Nick Foley on January 19, 2013 at 9:15am

I have also noticed this Delete-Focus issue. At least in my case, however, the Delete-Focus issue is intermittent, and can usually be fixed by restarting Rhino. I have not yet found a workaround for the inability to Paste

Permalink Reply by AB on January 19, 2013 at 9:25am

I have experienced the Delete button not working as well as copy paste being broken... It has only happened 5-6 times over the last couple months. I have only experienced it with Rhino4 along with the latest (at the time) GH build. (Windows7)

I followed advice here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/delete-button-not-answeri...

and it worked for me. Your problem may be different, but it may be worth trying.

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