5881 - {feature} Cut/Copy/Paste menu items need to be more intelligent

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 5563

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[sujay]

using 4/30 build on all platforms.

1) launch apprunner
2) launch editor from Task menu
3) Cut/Copy some text.
4) As you pull down the Edit menu to paste the text, notice that the Cut/Copy
   menu items are not dimmed out like they should be after such an operation.

Also ensure:

before cut/copy of any text, they should be dimmed out if nothing is selected,
unless something is left over in the buffer.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

[Note bug #4960]

Comment 2

[Charles Manske]

I think Simon was assigned the menu enabling/disabling work, but this is a big
task so I'll hold on to this one.

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

This can wait.

Comment 4

[Charles Manske]

Since Simon is doing menu enabling/disabling, I'm going to let him handle this.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

akk, is there a way to tell if the clipboard contains pastable data?

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

I don't think the Clipboard interfaces currently offer any way to do this.
Adding Clipboard people to the cc list -- xpfe folks, how can we do this?

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

hrm, there doesn't seem to be any "good" way to do this, besides, well, asking
the clipboard for the data and testing it yourself. I agree that kinda blows.
Tell me what you want and I'll think about how to do it. Do you want to open up
another bug for that?

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

M12

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5563 ***

Comment 10

[sujay]

verified in 9/14 build.