Bug #44461 Workbench:copyToClipboard creates only garbage characters

• Submitted: 24 Apr 2009 16:41
• Modified: 9 Jun 2009 15:10
• Reporter: Karsten Wutzke
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 5.1.10
• OS: Windows (XP)
• Assigned to: Alfredo Kojima
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: CHECKED, clipboard, copy, garbage characters

[24 Apr 2009 16:41] Karsten Wutzke

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:
?

[24 Apr 2009 16:41] Karsten Wutzke

test plugin

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

[24 Apr 2009 16:44] Karsten Wutzke

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...

[24 Apr 2009 16:48] Karsten Wutzke

tags weren't comma separated

[24 Apr 2009 16:49] Karsten Wutzke

tags changed

[24 Apr 2009 17:37] MySQL Verification Team

Thank you for the bug report.

[3 Jun 2009 22:12] Johannes Taxacher

fix confirmed. will be included in 5.1.13

[9 Jun 2009 15:10] Tony Bedford

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.