12047 - Text cannot be copied from a frameset

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Eli Goldberg]

* TITLE/SUMMARY
Text cannot be copied from a frameset

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
0) Launch Apprunner
1) View any frameset (as a minimized example, see http://www.prometheus-
music.com/gecko/frameset.html)
2) Copy any of the page's text.
3) View your system's clipboard

* RESULT
 - What happened

Nothing is displayed in the clipboard.

 - What was expected

Copied text to be displayed. If you view one of the source pages without a
frameset (e.g. leftframe.html or rightframe.html) and copy, the text *will*
appear properly in the clipboard.

* REGRESSION

 - Occurs On
        Mac OS Apprunner (8.16.99 AM optimized build)
        Win32 Apprunner ([not valid build, but adequate for regressing a bug]
8.17.99 AM optimized build [NT 4, Service Pack 3])

 - Doesn't Occur On
        Netscape Communicator 4.7 M2 (Mac OS)



* CONFIGURATIONS TESTED

- [Mac] Beige Power Mac G3 (266 MHz PowerPC 750), 96 MB RAM (VM on; 1 MB of VM
used), 1024x768 (Thousands of Colors), Mac OS 8.6

- [Win32] Vectra VL (233 MHz P2), 96 MB RAM, 800x600 (True Color), NT 4.0 SP3.

- [Linux] Vectra VL (266 MHz P2), 96 MB RAM.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

[QA Assigning to self, CC:ing Akkana.]

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to akkana

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

this sounds similar to a bug which Simon is working on; cc [e-mail];
reassign to myself in the mean time

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

Eli--can you check this bug again with today's build?

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I tried this, and it seemed to work OK for me. The other bug which is related,
bug 12271, also works for me.

Comment 6

[Eli Goldberg]

Sorry; using 1999082509 Mac OS build (M10), clipboard remains empty after copy

operation.

Comment 7

[Eli Goldberg]

[mid-air collision --- e.g. sorry ---> Kathy. If it works for Simon, it must have
been fixed since the build I downloaded was made.]

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Don't mark this fixed just yet.

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

Eli, Simon--is this still a bug?
Changing component to Selection (since this is reproduced in the browser).

Comment 10

[Eli Goldberg]

Yup; still a bug in 1999090808 build (Mac OS checked).

BTW, "Selection" as defined on the component description page (http://
bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser) does not include the
functionality that is broken in this bug report.

Specifically, it covers selection, as opposed to what you do with the text (e.g.
a copy) after it's selected. These are currently being put under "Editor", I
believe either by Mike Judge or Akkana's preference; I forget.

Comment 11

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to [e-mail] for triage

Comment 12

[buster]

I'd say this is fairly important, a "really like to have fixed for beta."
Marking M12, priority P3.  Can be pushed past M12 if necessary.
assigning back to akkana
Component is not selection, this is a bug in a browser feature related to the
clipboard.  Changed component to "Browser-general" for lack of a more specific
area.
cc rahda and simon.

Comment 13

[Akkana Peck]

I'm willing to do some testing on this to figure out what's up.  This page won't
load at all in today's apprunner browser, though; I'm trying to figure out who
to assign that bug to.

Comment 14

[Akkana Peck]

Just filed 14199 on the fact that this page won't load at all in the last few
builds.

Comment 15

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

When you say 'Copy any of the Page's text' ,I assume you  did a Edit->Copy. If
that is what you did, I can understand why it isn't working. Edit->Copy, gets
the presShell for the Content area webshell and calls a copy on it.This will
work for non-frame pages. For frame pages, you need to figure in which subframe
the selection happened and call copy on its presShell.

If you did not do a Edit->Copy, I don't know why it isn't working.

Comment 16

[Eli Goldberg]

Yup; the only way to copy text in the current builds is via mouse selection of
Edit | Copy.

Comment 17

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This falls in my plate.

Comment 18

[davidm]

This more or less works. I think there is a bug in that each frame can have a
selection but if you only have 1 selection you can copy and paste from either
frame. I tried on mac/linux debug builds from last night. I would mark this fixed
and open a new bug about multiple selections.

Comment 19

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

matiskella says this s'd kind'a work. Marking fixed. Please verify

Comment 20

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified fixed using 2000011208 Mac OS smoke-tested build, and 2000011108
Win32/Linux smoke-tested builds.

(The side-issue of multiple selections in frames is covered by bug #7465.)