Context menu support currently doesn't work in the rich-text notes in Zotero 2.0. But you can add a note by selecting text on a web page and choosing "Create Zotero Item and Note from Selection" or, if a note is already selected, "Add Selection to Zotero Note".

Thanks Dan... Nothing like getting help from the lead developer....

Maybe I'm missing something here... is Tiny MCE already installed in Zotero... or do I need to download and install it...

Steve

Thanks Sean...

Before we lose sight of my issue... which is Paste not working from the Right mouse click... The Tiny MCE site also seemed to have an issue with Paste... it may be another type of problem... as Copy and Paste works fine in Word for me... it could be that the issue is not with Zotero or TinyMCE but with Firefox... as it seemed that the issue came up with the new release of Firefox... now that Firefox is out of Beta... maybe that is the place to find the solution...

Thanks...

Steve

Thanks Dan...

I may look into getting a mouse with some "mappable" buttons...

Thanks again for Zotero... When I wrote a presentation for new students at Western Governors University ... I definitely included a big plug for Zotero ... fantastic!

Steve

Could you explain the exact steps you're taking and what's happening (or not happening, as the case may be)? Pasting via context menu should work fine in 2.0b6.2, and does for me in OS X and Windows XP.

OK, I think I'm seeing the issues you're referring to.

First, just to clarify, the rich-text note field in Zotero isn't a standard text field, which is why it's not acting like one. It's using TinyMCE, a JavaScript-based rich-text editor that tries to emulate a native rich-text word processor. Until Firefox provides an adequate native rich-text editor, we have to make do with JavaScript workarounds like TinyMCE and any limitations they have.

Anyhow, the first problem, I believe, is that you're just clicking too low in the field. The TinyMCE context-menu plugin that we enabled in 2.0b6 appears to only register right-clicks when you click on a line that already contains text, not in empty whitespace below. This is obviously contrary to how right-click works in standard text fields on any OS, but it's the way TinyMCE works at the moment.

A bigger problem is that it looks like the context-menu plugin doesn't work as well on XP as it does on OS X. Right-clicking the end of a line on XP does appear to highlight the enter line, which pretty seriously hampers the ability to use the context menu. This isn't specific to Zotero—I can reproduce it on XP on the example on TinyMCE's site. It looks like this only happens when you click to the right of the end of the line, so a workaround is to hit the spacebar a few times and then click in the space you just created, and then paste.

Unfortunately this isn't our code and isn't something we're likely to take the time to fix ourselves (particularly since pasting via Ctrl/Cmd-V works just fine), but with any luck these are issues that the TinyMCE folks will fix in a later version, which we'll happily integrate into Zotero.

Hopefully the workarounds above will help. Otherwise, you may want to just use Ctrl-V until the TinyMCE bugs are fixed.

A little more info ... kinda off topic...

I used to have a Contour Shuttle Pro... which had 15 programmable buttons... but it quit working after a flood... and I haven't replaced it yet... I also use a 32 inch monitor to help see the text... so workarounds are nothing new... if I had known how much time I'd spend in front of a computer I would'a paid more attention in typewriter class... (I know, I know, what's a typewriter?)

Thanks again...

Steve

Could this have something to do with the issue?

I'm not sure what issue you're referring to, but no, it's not related.

Import from Clipboard runs the standard file import process (for BibTeX, RIS, etc.) on data on the clipboard. It doesn't have anything to do with pasting.