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Title: Cut paste issue
Post by: James Padgett on October 16, 2011, 08:27:45 AM

If I open a project's FF_AppStart ...

Select all
delete

Then paste

FF 3.5 crashes ...

Title: Re: Cut paste issue
Post by: Haakon Birkeland on October 16, 2011, 09:37:25 AM

Mine does not, but then we're back to the core question â€" why would you do that in the first place?! :o

And what do you have in your clipboard that you are pasting, since it doesn't seem to be what should
be in this part of a project â€" the code you just deleted!?

Title: Re: Cut paste issue
Post by: James Padgett on October 17, 2011, 06:56:28 AM

Well this all started with a FF3 project I loaded in FF3.5 .. I had some declares inserted to the FF generated code ( because I had selected win 2000 compatability for min supported OS ), I don't remember doing it.. but then I digress ..
In my investigation I created a Dummy project with only the failing function in it and it worked.. so thinking I had a corrupt FF_AppStart I attempted to copy the code from the test project over the FF App start for my failing project .... and that is how I discovered this.
I am running Win 7 64 bit and can recreate this.
Select all, copy, paste.... sometimes I have to paste 2 times... no biggie..

Title: Re: Cut paste issue
Post by: David Kenny on October 17, 2011, 10:08:20 PM

I've not peeked at FF source code so this is off the top of my head, but I think there is a good chance that it is entirely an undo/redo buffer management issue. You can get FF (since v3.0) to do some pretty weird stuff, including crashing, when just using undo and redo, but I have also had problems when deleting the entire contents of an edit window and pasting. Right now, however, I can't reproduce what Jim is seeing (using FF3.5).

Jim, try cutting everything but one line, pasting and then cut that last line.

If you want to see what I am referring to, type about 100 characters on one line (not by pasting), then try to undo them all.

I can't imagine what a chore undo/redo must be to code in an editor. My hat is off to Paul for trying.

Title: Re: Cut paste issue
Post by: James Padgett on October 17, 2011, 11:14:53 PM

I pretty much can select some text, cut, paste and then paste again over the still selected text... then crash..

Title: Re: Cut paste issue
Post by: James Padgett on October 19, 2011, 09:12:21 PM

Verified the same thing at work as well... I can't figure I'll use that copy paste method in the FF_AppStart function, but alas it probably shouldn't do that anyway..

Is no one else seeing this behavior ?

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