155140 - cant paste data into form fields from non mozilla applications

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[marc santini]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408
BuildID:    2002052918

when attempting to paste html, text, or anything else into form elements( a
textarea in this case) from an application outside the mozilla browsing
interface( the html tab of mozilla composer, in this particular case) nothing
happens. Ctrl keys dont work, nor does using the edit menus, or right clicking,
or any combination thereof.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Gedit or abiword, and copy some data
2.go to an online form with a textarea input
3.attempt to paste into the textarea

Actual Results:  absolutely nothing

Expected Results:  pasted the data on the clipboard into the textarea

while i am hesitant to call this a major bug, I do think that the priority ranks
above normal. many people compose html in editors to be pasted into message
board signatures, commerce applications, and so on.

*** I have not tested this in KDE yet(i use gnome). I will try it and make an
addendum if neccessary

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

did you try middle-click?  middle-click to paste selection is the only universal
"paste" available in X.

Comment 2

[marc santini]

I have now tested this on other websites and the behavior is the same.

Comment 3

[timeless]

Please try middle click to paste.

Comment 4

[Carl Taylon]

Something odd. When this works when pasting a small amount of text (about 20
lines) from Open office 1.0. But from Star Office 5.2 several pages of text can
be pasted. Might be similar to the 4k byte paste bug

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

==> default owner

Comment 6

[Kenneth Herron]

I'm using buildid 20030109 on solaris 8/sparc with sun's gnome beta 3. I can
reproduce this fairly reliably.

I started gedit, entered some text into it, and tried to paste it into a mozilla
textarea (this "additional comments" widget). Small amounts of text can be
pasted reliably, but with larger amounts mozilla seems to freeze for a
moment--the textarea cursor stops blinking--and then goes back to normal without
any text appearing. 

I decided to do some more formal tests. I created a test file containing 256
numbered lines (total 8084 characters), then started a copy of gnome-terminal
and good ol' xterm. In each of these I'd start "tee test.out | wc" to capture
what was pasted and get a line/character count. Finally, I'd cut & paste two
different ways:

a) Copy in gedit via Edit->Select all, then paste via the center mouse button.
b) Copy using Edit->Select all and Edit->Copy, then paste via the keyboard
"Paste" button.

Here's what I got:
> wc -lc test*
     256    8084 test.txt
     179    5633 test.txt-gnometerm-menu
     191    6036 test.txt-gnometerm-mouse
     256    8084 test.txt-xterm-menu
     246    7766 test.txt-xterm-menu-2 (second attempt)
     256    8084 test.txt-xterm-mouse
     246    7766 test.txt-xterm-mouse-2 (second attempt)

Finally, I started another copy of gedit on a different host (remotely
displaying to my desktop) and tried copying the test text between them. After
selecting text in the local gedit, the first paste into the remote gedit would
only paste 2 1/2 lines. Performing a second paste would paste about 128 1/2
additional lines. This behavior was identical no matter which text-copying
method was used.

Finally, I cat'ed the test text into an xterm instance, set the xterm font to
"unreadable", dragged the window so that all 256 lines were visible, selected
the whole thing, and tried to paste into mozilla. Mozilla pasted the entire
thing without losing any text. I performed a similar test using konsole, KDE's
terminal app, and with gnome-terminal. Mozilla could receive pastes from konsole
fine, but pasting from gnome-terminal acted like pasting from gedit; the cursor
froze for a moment and nothing was pasted.

Last but not least, I can paste from xterm to kde or xterm to gedit without
losing data, but xterm to gnome-terminal loses several lines.

My conclusion from all of this is that gnome software has a cut & paste problem,
not mozilla.

Comment 7

[Kenneth Herron]

There haven't been any further comments. Resolving WFM based on comment 6.