Quenty
(Quenty)
April 3, 2023, 5:35am
#1
When you go and do the following:
Copy a string (title of animation to name)
Import an animation
Make an edit
Upload the animation
Half of the time Roblox’s animation editor will clear my clipboard. There’s calls to StudioService:CopyToClipboard
in the code.
Expected behavior
Please don’t clear my clipboard.
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Thanks for the report! We’ve filed a ticket in our internal database
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aaron_mccoy
(PleaseDontBanAaron)
September 18, 2023, 6:05pm
#3
Just want to quickly append that around 2020 this was reported and a staff member mentioned that it was due to a limitation of the application clipboard that plugins have in studio.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we are aware of the issue. It is due to the animation editor clearing the clipboard upon opening. Unfortunately, this is the result of rather limited access to the application clipboard that plugins have in studio, as well as not having an official way to hook into paste events. This seems to be a growing problem for our users though, as this is not the first report. I’ll work on seeing if we can improve plugin capabilities for this in the future, in th…
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PeZsmistic
(PeZsmistic)
September 18, 2023, 6:07pm
#4
Would be great to hear where this is at for improving plugin capabilities around this, as it’s very disruptive how Studio constantly mishandles the clipboard.
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Wsly
(Wsly)
September 18, 2023, 8:13pm
#5
This has been quite disruptive to my animation uploading workflow and has been lingering on for years. Would be helpful to finally see this fixed…
MaySoon2021
(MaySoon2021)
September 20, 2023, 7:06am
#6
me too, about the publish animation
Hi, this issue has already been reported on this thread: Animation Editor inserting blank text to the clipboard
We will be giving updates on this issue in this original thread.