[Eric] eric4 editor problem?

[detlev]

On Dienstag, 20. April 2010, Eric wrote:
> I am using eric4 4.4.2 under ubuntu 9.10.
> I noticed that when I drag text from an eric4 editor window to a window in
>  another program, the text is removed from the eric4 window. That seems
>  wrong to me. I expected the dragged text to remain in the eric4 window
>  when the drag destination is a different application.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1- Open some text file in gedit.
> 2- Open some text file in eric4.
> 3- Select some text in gedit and drag to the eric4 editor window. Notice
>  the text shows up in the eric4 window as expected, but it also remains in
>  the gedit window. That's what I consider normal behavior, at least in a
>  GNOME environment.
> 4- Select some text in the eric4 editor window and drag it to the gedit
>  window. Notice the text shows up in the gedit window as expected, but it
>  also vanishes from the eric4 window. The vanishing part is what I consider
>  a bug.

This seems to be a QScintilla issue. The line of code from QScintilla is

Qt::DropAction action = drag->exec(Qt::MoveAction | Qt::CopyAction, 
Qt::MoveAction);

The eric editor doesn't do anything special when a drag is started.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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