456632 - With Copy command, Apple-C, Firefox passes plugin a space character with no selection

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P2)

Description

[Alan Liu]

In a Silverlight textbox, when you press AppleKey+C with no selection made in the textbox, it'll copy a space to the clipboard, instead of being no action.

Traced it down to Mac Firefox handling the copy command for us, and passes us the buffer with a space in it.  Silverlight cannot differentiate this from a real copy of just a space.

The same problem occurs with Flash/Flex.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Bizarre!

I can reproduce this in Firefox 2.X and 3.X, but only on OS X.

It doesn't happen (in Firefox) on Windows or Linux.

It doesn't happen is Safari (on OS X).

I can also reproduce it with my DebugPluginEvents plugin from bug
441880 -- so this is clearly a browser bug.

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

I can't reproduce this with Flash or the basic sample plugin in our plugin SDK. I can reproduce with Steven's event debug plugin. What exactly does a plugin need to do in order to trigger this behavior?