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Dmiitry
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Is it possible to implement Clipboard Ring in ClipboardFusion, similar to Microsoft Visual Studio?

The Clipboard Ring keeps track of the past 20 items you've either cut or copied so you can reuse them over and over again. After you hit item 20, it'll go back to the first item again. This is why the feature is called a Clipboard Ring. See Microsoft documentation for this feature at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa301782(v=vs.71).aspx

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Sep 7, 2017  • #1
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
On the Settings > Clipboard Manager tab, if you enable the "Enable one key navigation in Clipboard Manager menus" option, then set a key combination for "Show History Menu" on the Settings > HotKeys tab, you should be able to do this. The first press of the hotkey will open the menu, and if you keep the modifier keys held down, and press the keyboard key multiple times, it will cycle through the entries. When you let go of the modifiers, the selected entry will be pasted.

Hope that helps!
Sep 7, 2017  • #2
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Dmiitry
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Excellent, exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks Keith
Sep 8, 2017  • #3
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Dmiitry
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Is it possible to allow us to move UP in the history when using this Clipboard Ring functionality?

I have both 'Enable one key navigation in Clipboard manager menus' and 'Auto paste on clipboard Manager selection' checked and this allows me to emulate Clipboard Ring, as you've suggested:
1) Click 'Show history menu' key combination Ctrl + ` and History Menu opens
2) Keeping Ctrl pressed, I repeatedly click ` to move focus down and eventually locate item of interest
3) Release Ctrl and selected item is pasted in the underlying application.

Is there a way to move focus UP while Ctrl is still pressed? Down and Up, we love symmetry :P
Sep 8, 2017  • #4
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
There isn't currently a "reverse one-key navigation" type of hotkey, but I will definitely add it to our feature request list. In the meantime, you can use the up/down arrow keys while holding Ctrl after opening the history to move up/down :)
Sep 9, 2017  • #5
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Dmiitry
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Yes, Up and Down keys work as expected, and releasing Ctrl pastes the focused item. This is exactly what I want, maybe don't need to add reverse one-key navigation feature after all...

Thanks Keith!
Sep 11, 2017  • #6
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
No worries, glad that works for you!
Sep 11, 2017  • #7
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Dmiitry
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In my last post I've said "releasing Ctrl pastes the focused item". Ok, that's true for all items instead the first one. With all settings set to emulate Clipboard Ring, try this:
1) You don't remember which item you want to paste, but vaguely remember that it is one of the top ones. Pressing Ctrl + ` opens History and keeping Ctrl pressed you are able to iterate through the list by repeatedly pressing ` or Up and Down keys
2) Press ` to navigate to second item. Releasing Ctrl would paste it
3) Now, what you actually want is the FIRST item. You can navigate UP by using Up key, as Keith has suggested.
However, releasing Ctrl when the first item is focused does not paste it. Any other item apart from the first one gets pasted on Ctrl release, but not the first one.

Am I doing something wrong?
Sep 13, 2017  • #8
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
My bad, this is actually as-designed right now, but I've put it on our list to review for a future version, as I agree that it should auto-paste even when using the arrow keys.

We'll be sure to let you know when we've implemented that.

Thanks!
Sep 14, 2017  • #9
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