Bug #44461 Workbench:copyToClipboard creates only garbage characters

Description:
When using Workbench:copyToClipboard() from within a plugin, only garbage characters are copied to the Windows clipboard and thus any other application. This destructs several plugins' functions.

On the string "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!§$%&/()=" a runtime exception is thrown.

How to repeat:
Just run the attached test plugin which simply tries to output the string "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789".

Suggested fix:
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test plugin

Attachment: ClipboardExport.grt.lua (application/octet-stream, text), 2.10 KiB.

Make sure with WB 5.1.x the plugin must either be installed via the new menu item or copied to the new shared plugin dir, like

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Username\Anwendungsdaten\MySQL Workbench\modules

Sorry I can't translate that into the English dir names... some place where the user data is stored, some application data dir...

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Thank you for the bug report.

fix confirmed. will be included in 5.1.13

An entry was added to the 5.1.13 changelog:

When Workbench:copyToClipboard() was used from within a plugin, only garbage characters were copied to the Windows clipboard. This affected the operation of plugins.

When a plugin attempted to output the string “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!§$%&/()=” a runtime exception was generated.