175275 - get contents of selection fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 490830

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

Using AppleScript to read the currently selected text fails in 1.2b1; that is, ti 
always returns the empty string. Select some text in a Mozilla window and 
run the following:

tell application "Mozilla"
	activate
	set quote to contents of selection as string
end tell

display dialog quote

This will always be the empty string. Looking at the event log in the script 
editor, it appears that the selection-object returned is the current 
application.

Comment 1

[Andrew Thompson]

Reproduced in 1.2b1. Taking

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Thanks for taking it. BTW, the component is wrong. Now tha it's yours, can you
change it to something more appropriate so it doesn't show up on Embedding radar?

Comment 3

[Andrew Thompson]

-> Event Handling, in line with other Apple Script bugs

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 5

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Simon, this slipped through the cracks, WONTFIX-ing per you

Comment 6

[Andrew Thompson]

No, this is still valid on Mac OS X.
Applescript still exists and this still doesn't work.

That's why I retargeted it on 2003-09-12 to Mac OS X.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

lordpixel "Doesn't work on Firefox 2.0 or Camino 1."