Copying from the context menu does not work with Copy Cat

[kanlukasz]

Example:

Environment info:

Version: 1.63.0
Commit: 7db1a2b88f7557e0a43fec75b6ba7e50b3e9f77e
Date: 2021-12-07T06:26:56.179Z
Electron: 13.5.2
Chromium: 91.0.4472.164
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.39-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044

[nkosakul]

Hi!

Thanks for addressing this!
Unfortunately, VSCode API doesn´t let me hook on existing context menu items. So there is really nothing i can do.
And i´m not aware of some workarounds, yet.

But the API allows me to create my own context menu items, which i did as an alternative solution

I hope this is an acceptable solution, until VSCode API gives us more options here.

It is now available with version 1.1.0

[kanlukasz]

Hello

Are you sure there is no API for this?
I am asking because a similar extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EdgardMessias.clipboard-manager) works like this without a problem

PS. Sorry for the lack of PR, but my primary language is PHP

[nkosakul]

Im gonna have a look at it 👁️‍🗨️

[nkosakul]

As far as i can see, he is using setInterval as a workaround.
He´s listen to the clipboard (with vscode.env.clipboard.readText()) every 500ms.

That seems risky when it comes to performance. Not sure how the CPU likes that 🤔

[nkosakul]

Ah, i just look at his issues:
edgardmessias/vscode.clipboard-manager#233

high chance that the CPU Overload is coming from the setInterval

[kanlukasz]

Thanks for checking. Yes, listening to the clipboard every 500 ms sounds risky.
On the other hand, I am now checking closed issues in the repository of that extension and I can see that apart from this one, there was no similar problem

PS. Your new option Copy and save... is nice but what about the cut option now? 😃

Maybe a good solution would be create some options:
(It's just an idea, I don't know how difficult it is to achieve this goal)

[nkosakul]

Great idea!
Im gonna try to implement it this afternoon