Bug #53790 Copy, cut and paste require mouse
Submitted: 19 May 2010 9:12 Modified: 16 Jun 2010 16:23
Reporter: Jan Ingvoldstad Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.21 RC OS:MacOS
Assigned to: Alfredo Kojima CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: copy, cut, paste

[19 May 2010 9:12] Jan Ingvoldstad
Description:
When performing regular text-based clipboard operations, WB requires the use of a mouse.

This is a usability problem, and in violation of user interface guidelines.

How to repeat:
Try using the OS's standard keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, or paste.

Suggested fix:
Follow user interface guidelines, allow keyboard shortcuts by default, so that users don't have to work their way around it.
[19 May 2010 10:44] Johannes Taxacher
Hi Jan,
could you specify where the keyboard-shortcuts are not working (its already working in many places like SQL editor etc.)
thanks in advance
[19 May 2010 11:45] Jan Ingvoldstad
Aha, so it IS working somewhere.

After failing to get copy, cut and paste to work with keyboard shortcuts in several places, I thought it was endemic.

I'll make some notes, then.
[19 May 2010 11:46] Jan Ingvoldstad
Here's one: the bug searching/reporting tool.
[19 May 2010 11:50] Jan Ingvoldstad
When creating a new model, click "Add table" under "Physical schemata", copying text into the comments field does not work at the first try.

It works on the second try, but is glacially slow.

Additionally, undo (command+Z) to undo the second paste (which is the first that's entered) results in cancellation of the procedure (that is, not the programming procedure, but the "Add table" procedure from a user's point of view), and I have to start over by clicking "Add table" again.
[19 May 2010 13:14] MySQL Verification Team
I couldn't repeat on Windows Vista, probably Mac OS X related.
[19 May 2010 19:07] Valeriy Kravchuk
Indeed, in table comments Commad-V does not work.
[16 Jun 2010 10:27] Johannes Taxacher
fix confirmed in repository
[16 Jun 2010 16:23] Tony Bedford
An entry has been added to the 5.2.23 changelog:

Keyboard shortcuts such as Cmd+C, Cmd+V, and Cmd+Z were not useable consistently in all parts of MySQL Workbench.