Clipboard Support

[tradford]

Love the software!! Noticed in the Tools section that is something called ClipBoard sync that is supposed to allow cutting/pasting between clipboards. Is it supposed to work in Beta 5 yet? If so how do you set it up?

[Andrew @ Parallels]

It works for average size texts (up to 128Kbyte).

To use just copy in Primary OS and paste in Guest OS or vice versa.

[tradford]

Thanks. I tried the test and it works great. So images won't work at this point?

[Andrew @ Parallels]

Images works only for combination - Primary Windows <-> Guest Windows.

[tradford]

I'm not quite understanding how the image clipboarding works. Can I copy paste from a Mac Word doc to a WIN XP guest Powerpoint document with an image? I've tried a couple times and it hasn't worked. Could try be a size limit to the image?

[engrProf]

It works for average size texts (up to 128Kbyte).

To use just copy in Primary OS and paste in Guest OS or vice versa.
II can't get copy/paste between host and guest to work! :( I have Beta 5. I installed Parallels tools when I upgraded to Beta 5. I made sure that clipboard synchronization was enabled. If I copy text in an XP application and open Parallels Tools Center and click on clipboard synchronization, the text is there in the clipboard. But if I go over to the Mac side and paste, nothing happens. Then if I copy something on the Mac side and go back to XP, the clipboard hasn't changed. What am I doing wrong?

[Andrew @ Parallels]

You don't need to open Parallels Tools Center for copy and past. Just copy in guest and past in primary - or vice versa. Check text size - it should not be more than 128Kbytes.

[engrProf]

You don't need to open Parallels Tools Center for copy and past. Just copy in guest and past in primary - or vice versa. Check text size - it should not be more than 128Kbytes.
Yes, I know that. I opened Parallels tools to troubleshoot, and to verify that Parallels tools knows what's in the clipboard.

I just did the following:
1. Open MS Word in XP running in VM. Type "12345." Copy. Paste to verify that it's in clipboard. (One person reminded me to use ^C and ^V on the PC. I did. I also did it using the menu. I also tried other apps besides MS Word.)
2. Switch to the Mac. Open MS Word on Mac. (I also tried other apps.) Paste. (I tried Apple-V and nothing happened; I also tried the menu command and paste was grayed out.)
3. Switch back to PC and paste again. It pastes just fine.

I also tried it the other way, copying into the Mac clipboard and pasting into a PC app. That doesn't work either.

I opened Parallels tools center and verified that clipboard synchronization is enabled. Text I enter on the Mac side doesn't appear in the clipboard that shows in Parallels tools center.

[Stark]

Any idea when a fix for this will be in place? The inabillity to copy/paste to MS office is the only thing holding up an order for two copies of parallels.

[mlandel]

You don't need to open Parallels Tools Center for copy and past. Just copy in guest and past in primary - or vice versa. Check text size - it should not be more than 128Kbytes.
In an earlier Beta, copying >128k caused a crash.
(I don't recall now whether a panic or just a VM crash)
Has this been fixed?