[QScintilla] bug when dragging text to another application?

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Thu Apr 22 23:20:04 BST 2010


On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:23:21 -0700, Eric <tidris769 at cox.net> wrote:
> I am using eric4 on ubuntu linux and I have noticed a possible drag and
> drop bug that is probably 
> caused by scintilla.
> 
> When I drag text from the eric4 text window (which uses scintilla) into a
> window belonging to 
> another application, the dragged text shows up on the other application's
> window as expected, but it 
> also vanishes from the eric4 text window. The vanishing part seems like
the
> wrong behavior to me. 
> When dragging text to another application I expect it to be a copy
> operation, but scintilla seems to 
> be attempting a move operation instead.
> 
> IMO, a move operation only makes sense when dragging text within the same
> document (or scintilla 
> widget).

Should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.

Thanks,
Phil


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