Toolbar > Help - Copy to clipboard of O-version and Chart path

[rgleason]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Make it easier for the User to Copy the OpenCPN Version Number from the Toolbar > Help.
The OpenCPN Version number is at the top of the window, but it cannot be highlighted and copied to the clipboard.

[leamas]

This is actually non-trivial. The basic problem is that wxStaticText, the widget used to present text like this does not support selecting and copying text.

I have worked around this in the device dialogs like below. It works in this context where the only purpose is to display something
which can be copied. However, it looks like crap and to use it here in the regular display would make look even worse than today due to misaligned fields, etc.

It might be possible to do something similar to the device dialogs, hiding the copyable text in the normal view but still display it when needed. I agree that being able to select and copy version and paths fill a purpose.

[leamas]

That said, could you please use the form when submitting bugs? Bugs are so much easier to read when they follow a common pattern. It also forces you to think about important things.

In this case you have not answered the problem in the header "Is your feature request related to a problem?" -- you have not described the problem. Instead you have answered another question in the form, but removed the relevant header. It does not make things easier, for sure.

[leamas]

While on this widget we should perhaps consider to add a "Get help" link to CF.

[rgleason]

Also, perhaps easiest, only if possible.

Is there some way to click a button in the Help menu and send those files somewhere that can be accessed with the Version Number at the top?

Just an idea.
Or maybe just add the version number at the top of the files, only if not too difficult.

[rgleason]

Re: Get Help link to CF. Perhaps not, as Users will just do that rather than digging a little, reading the manual and learning. Is that perverse?

[rgleason]

Also, how about a hot url link that can be copied to clipboard for Chart path ?

[rgleason]

@leamas should this be closed?