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Cut and paste from user tool window?

Is there a way to cut and paste the output of a user tool (e.g. Statistics)?  I can select the text in the window, but I don't seem to be able to cut it into the clipboard.  I have my own scripts that run outside of NWC getting input from an NWCTXT file, and I can redirect the output into a file, but I was hoping to quickly grab an existing user tool's output.

Re: Cut and paste from user tool window?

Reply #1 –
Quote from: Randy Williams (purdue) –
I can select the text in the window, but I don't seem to be able to cut it into the clipboard.
You can select and copy. NWC won't allow changes to the contents of the window that it shows to the user, so cut, paste and delete are disabled.
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Re: Cut and paste from user tool window?

Reply #2 –
I'm sorry, but I still don't get it.  I can select, but how do I copy?
 

Re: Cut and paste from user tool window?

Reply #4 –
Well I'm an idiot.  I'm so used to using Cut/Paste only from a menu obtained by right-clicking, that I forgot all about trying a keyboard shortcut.  I wonder why NWC can't bring up the right-click menu for that window?  Anyway, thanks a bunch - it helps me a lot.