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------- Additional comments from john...@openoffice.org Thu May 20 23:12:41
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I have found a way of making the problem reproduceable.
You need a clipboard viewer to see what is happening. It is reproduceable using
the text and image technique as below but my original report shows how it also
happens (less often) when I copy text.
XP used to include clipbrd.exe which was a clipboard viewer. It is not supplied
with Vista or W7, but it does work on W7. Alternatively, download a similar
freebie utility. (Note - the clipboard viewer is not causing the problem. I
originally got the problem when I did not have the clipboard viewer on my PC - I
only got the clipboard viewer in order to help me analyse the problem after it
had occurred.)
1 Open clipbrd.exe - we will use it to see the contents of the clipboard
2 Open an image with an image editor (MS Paint works) and copy the image. Look
at clipbrd.exe - it now contains the image. (nb IrfanView is a bit better
because IrfanView allows me to past both text and images into it)
3 Open a new Writer file and PASTE - the image is pasted into the document at
the cursor position. This is as expected.
So we have proved that OO will paste an image from the clipboard at the current
cursor position.
4 Close the document.
5 Open a new Writer file and type the words zebra and lion.
6 Highlight zebra, and copy it. Paste it into the document - zebra appears
7 Look at clipbrd.exe - it now contains zebra as expected because the last
thing copied was the word zebra
8 Go back to the image editor, select the image and copy it. Paste the image
into the image editor - it pastes the image OK. So the clipboard now contains
the image.
9 Check clipbrd.exe - note how, as expected, it contains the image.
10 Change focus to OO Writer, and just paste or Ctrl/v.
You would expect the contents of the clipboard to be pasted - ie the image - as
in Step 3 above, but they are not! Instead, then previous contents of the
clipboard which were copied from Writer, namely zebra, is pasted.
This is clearly wrong.
11 Return to the image editor and paste or ctrl/v. The image is pasted.
So the image editor pastes the CURRENT contents of the clipboard OK, but OO
pastes the PREVIOUS contents of the clipboard which Writer itself copied.
11 In Writer, copy lion. Paste into Writer - lion is pasted OK. Paste into
another text app (Notepad) and lion is pasted OK. Check clipbrd.exe - it has
lion. This is all as expected
So the problem looks like at Step 10 Writer (and Calc and Impress) is picking up
zebra from an OO Writer buffer which has not been cleared - it is NOT picking up
the current contents of the clipboard.
I have since done a bit of digging. This mozilla forum entry is interesting -
it seems to be the same problem and seems to have been analysed as a race
problem. http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88161
I have reproduced this fault five times in succession by following the written
steps exactly as above.
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