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BGPierce / VCC

Tandy Color Computer 3 Emulator
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Pasting into the VCC screen #16

Open BGPierce opened 8 years ago

BGPierce commented 8 years ago

One thing I have always been jealous of between VCC and Mess is Mess's ability to 'paste' into the Coco screen. You can select and copy text from a PC document, then paste it into the Coco's memory. This makes inputing Basic programs from listings in other documents a breeze. You can edit files on your PC using your favorite editor, then copy and paste it into the Coco. This action would react just as if you input via the keyboard.

Luis46coco commented 7 years ago

There are 2 ways to do this, (or more), one is to use the keyboard buffer and fill it with the text (piece by piece), and Basic will create the lines or errors that process

The other way is to create the tokens and the whole program and place it in the appropriate memory area, taking into account that ... (this I already did in cocodiskutil) there are several configurations, like no controller, with HD, without extended basic

So it seems easier to just type as a keyboard

ogsteviestrow commented 7 years ago

I think this would be a great idea on being able to use the normal copy/paste function to go from your computer to the VCC, either through the standard CTRL-C and CTRL-V or even with a menu option to paste directly to the CoCo. I have never tried using 3rd party tools to bridge the gap between the virtual and physical worlds on CoCo related things, so "as easy as possible" would be the desired implementation.