176744 - copying pasting material from OOo 1.01 doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Dennis Daniels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

using OOo 1.01, create some text, copy it, and try to paste into form fields on
a web page. it doesn't work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create some text in OOo 1.01
2.select text
3. copy text
4. open browser
5 place cursor in text form field
6 try to paste
7 it doesn' work

Actual Results:  
copy paste fails

Expected Results:  
copy paste should work

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1)  How do you copy?  (just highlight, copy from a menu, use the "copy" key on the
                       keyboard, some other method?)
2)  How do you paste? (middle-mouse-click, "paste" from context menu, "paste" from
                       main menu, "paste" key on keyboard, some other method?)
3)  As you do all this, what does "xclipboard" show?

Comment 2

[Kenneth Herron]

Workds for me on solaris 8/sparc, using OO build 643 and Mozilla 2002102422.

1) Typed "12345" into an OO document. Dragged mouse over it to select. Switched
to mozilla and middle-clicked into a form field. "12345" was pasted. xclipboard
did not display the selected text.

2) Typed "23456" into OO document, selected it with the mouse, selected
Edit->Copy from the OO menu. Switched to mozilla,clicked in a form field,
selected Edit->Paste, "23456" was filled in. xclipboard displays the selected
text after Edit->Copy.

3) Typed "34567" into OO document, selected with the mouse, hit keyboard "Copy"
button. Switched to mozilla, clicked in a form field, hit keyboard "Paste".
"34567" was pasted in. xclipboard displays the text after hitting "copy".

Comment 3

[Dennis Daniels]

i don't know how to view xclipboard but in playing with moz and OOo1.01 OOo
complained about not reading a copy from text from Moz, (that's a prob. with
OOo) but the behavior on the copy paste from OOo to Moz is undependable. I hate
to say this but I restarted the computer and some of the wierdness went away,
and other weirdness (read: unpredicatable behaviors)appeared. I'll test more
over the weekend.

regarding methods of copy. tried through the toolbar, the keyboard and the mouse
in a variety of combinations.

thanks
dgd

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> i don't know how to view xclipboard

You type "xclipboard &" in a terminal window.

And please say the _exact_ steps you used (comment 2 is an example of what we're
looking for here)... It's hard to fix things if all people will tell you is
"something here is broken, but I won't tell you what".  ;)

Comment 5

[Patty Mac]

Where do I to get OOo1.01? Thanks!

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Patti: http://www.openoffice.org/ then follow the big "Download new version
1.0.1 now" link in the middle of the page.

Comment 7

[Dennis Daniels]

created text in OOo 1.x
copied text through tool bar
checked text in xclipboard &
verified content was there
went wikipedia.org
selected edit on one of the pages
activated curor in text form box
ctrl + v to paste 
nothing happened

went back to simple text editor
opened new blank page
ctrl + v
my text was successfully copied from one text editor to another, it is in the
clipboard buffer but it is _not_ pasting into Mozilla/ I tried three different
sites with areas for posting but none worked and the data is still in the
xclipboard buffer...

tried copying from a simple text editor. same thing. copy paste is not working
(for whatever reason) with copied text even though it is in the buffer.

thank you for your help, patience and understanding.
dgd

Comment 8

[Alexander Opitz]

Reporter can you reproduce this bug with a newer build (1.4 final)?
If not, then please close this bug as worksforme. Thanks.

Comment 9

[Kenneth Herron]

This still works fine for me. I can copy & paste between OOo and mozilla with no
trouble.

Dennis, if you can reproduce this with current revisions of mozilla and OOo,
please feel free to reopen the bug.