The Clippings List is an area where you can deposit small sections of code for later use in your editing, making it in effect a multi item clipboard.  You can 

Add an Item to the Clip List

There are two main ways of copying to the clip list:


  • Drag and Drop  - Select the section of code you wish to add to the Clip List and drag the selection into the Clip List area in the right hand side panel.


  • Copy - With the Capture Clipboard checked in Clip List, anything copied to the clipboard will also be copied to the Clip list.


In both cases when you drag text to the Clip List you will be asked to add a caption, this caption is used as the basis for identifying saved Clippings.  A truncated section of the Text will appear in the Clip list with a Caption if it had been previously entered.

To View an Item

Hover the mouse over the item a hint will pop-up showing the whole text.

Copy an Item to the Source Code

Select the item in the Clip List and drag that item onto the editing page.


To Delete Clips 

Individual Clips, Select a clipping and press keyboard Delete.


Clears all the Code Clippings

To Save Clips for later recall

Clips can be saved for recall in a later session.  Select the clips you want to save.  If you want to save more than one clip hold down Shift key while selecting.  Multiple clips can be stored in a single clippings file.  


To save a clip,Click on the Save Toolbar Icon and enter a file name in which the clips will be held.

To Open an existing clip, Click  the Open Toolbar Icon, Navigate to the file holding the clips.  Individual clips will be listed in a checked list, choose the clips you want to open and Click Open.



Note - The Clippings List is not persistent, i.e. its contents will not be saved when Positron Studio is closed unless you save the clips you want to keep before closing the application.