240091 - drag and drop input boxes copy instead of move

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 101542

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Matt Mankins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When you select text from an input box and drag it to another input box, the
cursor (and other browsers) suggests that this action should result in a MOVE. 
Instead, the text is just copied and not deleted from the source.

Holding down the Control key is supposed to do copy mode, and the cursor changes
to indicate that a copy function will take place.

See http://www.loremipsumbooks.com/tmp/inputbox.html for an example.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select text from an input box.
2. Drag to another input box.
3. Notice that the text was copied, but the source was not erased.

Actual Results:  
Source not erased

Expected Results:  
Erased the source and copied result to new box.

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

Firefox 20040409 windows trunk
dupe of bug 101542
Note that drag and drop is a cut when it occurs within the same input box, and
turns into a move when you drop onto another input box. Weird.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101542 ***

Comment 2

[Bernard Alleysson]

I think that bug 101542 is about mail compose

Comment 3

[Bernard Alleysson]

over to XP toolkit/Widgets for more investigation ?

Comment 4

[Jon Henry]

I think this probably is a dupe Bernard, unless the widget for inputting text in
MailNews is substantially different than the one that appears on an HTML page.

Comment 5

[Bernard Alleysson]

*** Bug 242681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

All text editing code is taken care of in bug 101542, this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101542 ***