Import from Roblox in Animation Editor clears Clipboard

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#1

Copy an animation id to your clipboard (or anything really), insert a rig, open the Animation Editor and import an animation from Roblox.

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At this point, your clipboard will be emptied. You can try pasting the id here. Nothing.

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This issue has been reported over 3.5 years and ago, acknowledged, and it is still not fixed today. Ouch.

Quote from Roblox Animation Editor | Importing by Animation ID pasting from clipboard Issue:

The workaround is to use the Clipboard History from Windows (image) and get it back. All UX designers are rolling in their grave.

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#2

Actually I did some more digging and I have to say, I’m not even sure how this could have been messed up.

I assumed the problem would come from the method prompting a window to select the asset. Those methods often do a lot more back-end stuff that could mess up things such as the clipboard. Those are usually located in the Plugin instance. And indeed, there it was:

Plugin:PromptForExistingAssetId(assetType: string)

Awesome, that is definitely what triggers the clipboard to empty, right? Right!?

Nope.

I decided to try making my own, see if there’s any issues happening, or any complication that could happen.

-- Note: I use the shared global table to access tools quickly in my command bar
-- that I normally wouldn't be able to do, or just faster.
local id = shared.plugin:PromptForExistingAssetId("Animation")

if id > 0 then
	local ks = game:GetService("InsertService"):LoadAsset(id)
	ks.Parent = shared.selected
end

And well surprisingly, this doesn’t clear the clipboard at all. It works as it should. :man_shrugging:

So honestly, the truth is this is probably a relatively easy fix, and would have probably been fixed if the Animation Editor was open source. Empower the community.

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#3

Replying to bump this to the top, I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t been given more attention

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#4

Hi,

We linked this one with a similar issue internally and will close this one.

Thank you

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