227931 - Copy/Paste into compose window results in bitmap paste, not text.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[brian mcgrogan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Version 0.3 handled copy/paste correctly, but when I did the upgrade to 0.4
instead of copying the text from the clipboard, it copies the image bitmap,
resulting in text that is not editable.  I am using tn5250
(http://tn5250.sf.net/)  to do the copy operation and then pasting it into the
Compose window.  The workaround is to open notepad, copy from tn5250 into
notepad, then copy/paste from notepad into the Compose window...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go into tn5250 (http://tn5250.sf.net)
2. grab some text with the mouse off the screen, click Edit, then Copy
3. use Write on Thunderbird 0.4 to open the compose window
4. right click in a blank space and do Paste

Actual Results:  
It copies the text as a *bitmap*, not as text.

Expected Results:  
it should copy the text, the behavior of Thunderbird 0.3

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is a feature, and one that has been long demanded -- see bug 223909.

If you use   Edit | Paste Without Formatting   the image will not be pasted, and 
its 'alt' text will.  Of course, all the other formatting will be discarded.

Mozilla MailNews does not have this capability (yet), so you could use that as 
an alternative.