141987 - Allow selection, copy and dragging of selected text in XUL text

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

RFE: Allow selection of text in XUL documents/widgets + copy'ing this text to
the clipboard or dragging of the text into an other application...

All Motif2 applications supports this (dragging works via Middle-mouse) for
example...

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

AFAIK these features are part of Motif2's accessbility support, adding "access"
keyword.

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Example steps on Solaris to demonstrate what I mean (dragging of widget text via
middle-mouse):
1. Open a dtpad window and another Motif2 application:
% dtpad & sdtwsinfo &
2. Move the mouse into the "sdtwsinfo"-window, click on any text (for example
"Physical Memory (RAM)") with the middle mouse button, drag it into the dtpad
window and drop it there.

It would be very usefull to have the same functionality in XUL-based
applications.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

If this bug covers that <label/> elements should be able to be selectable, it is
a duplicate.  Normal textfields already support dragging, dropping, and selection.

Can you please clarify if this isn't a duplicate?

Comment 3

[Roland Mainz]

Does the normal textfield stuff and the planned support for <label> include the
middle-mouse DnD ?

Comment 4

[alessandro spinuso]

Attachment: test case.

text selection works on firefox 1.0.7 dosen't work in 1.5

Comment 5

[alessandro spinuso]

the method window.getSelection() doesn't return the selected string and window.getSelection().getEtitableRange() returns null!!

text is entered in html elements in xul files

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

alessandro, you picked the completely wrong bug. This is about Unix specifics, and probably even a dup for that.

Comment 7

[alessandro spinuso]

Ok.. I see, but if it`s not about text selection method in XUL, do you know if I have to consider it a bug or not? I started facing this problem from firefox 1.5 on. Maybe I just have to use other methods or workarounds. Some ideas?