1.4 Accessory Manager's Internal Buffers

When you click Copy from the Edit menu, any selected text is copied to the Clipboard. Text in the Clipboard can be pasted into any session window, text box, or other Windows application that supports the paste function. The Clipboard normally retains its contents until you subsequently cut or copy different text, or until you shut down the PC.

In addition to supporting the standard copy function, Accessory Manager also supports four internal buffers for copied text. When you copy text to an internal buffer, the text is copied to the Clipboard and then from the Clipboard to the selected buffer. Each time you do this, the text in the Clipboard is overwritten, but the text in the buffer remains intact until you copy text to that buffer again.

Text from Accessory Manager's buffers can be pasted only into session windows, and all buffers are cleared when you exit Accessory Manager.

To copy text to an internal buffer

  1. If a session is not already open, open one.

  2. Select the text that you want to copy.

  3. From the Edit menu, point to Copy To Buffer, and then click the name of the buffer where you want to copy the selected text.

    A check mark appears in front of the buffer name if text already exists in the buffer.

    All the buffers are cleared when you exit Accessory Manager.

To paste text from an internal buffer

  1. If a session is not already open, open one.

  2. Copy text to an internal buffer.

  3. Position the cursor where you want to insert the copied text.

    Text from Accessory Manager's buffers can be pasted only into session windows.

  4. From the Edit menu, point to Paste From Buffer, and then click the name of the buffer that contains the text that you want to paste.

    If no text exists in a buffer, its name is dimmed (unavailable).

    All the buffers are cleared when you exit Accessory Manager.

    NOTE:If cursor is located in an area where you cannot paste data, such as a protected field, nothing happens when you click a buffer name.