MySQL Bugs: #94083: Combinations of "Ctrl C" and "Ctrl V" try to copy and insert objects into model

Bug #94083	Combinations of "Ctrl C" and "Ctrl V" try to copy and insert objects into model
Submitted:	27 Jan 2019 20:38	Modified:	28 Jan 2019 5:18
Reporter:	Nikita Tratorov	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Modeling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	8.0.14	OS:	Windows (Microsoft Windows 10 Home Single Language)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	WBBugReporter

Description:
Problem in ER-model table edittor. Combinations Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V lost their default behavior. It is necessary to use a context menu as workaround.

How to repeat:
"Ctrl+C":
1. Open any EER diagram.
2. Dblclk on any table to open table edittor.
3. Open Columns tab.
4. Dblclk on any column name to start text edit.
5. Select with mouse part of text.
6. Press Ctrl+C
Selection will be reset.
Focus will be lost.

"Ctrl+V":
1. Open any EER diagram.
2. Dblclk on any table to open table edittor.
3. Open Columns tab.
4. Dblclk on any column name to start text edit.
5. Select with mouse part of text.
6. Press right button of mouse, to see context menu, and choose Copy.
7. Change place of text caret or edit another column name.
8. Press Ctrl+V
You will see dialog "Place object in diagram" with text: "<current table name> is already in this diagram. Would you like to duplicate..."

Suggested fix:
To take out management of combinations of keys in settings.
or
To return behavior by default - Ctrl+C must copy only selected text or object, and Ctrl+V must past clipboard data to focused place.

Hello Nikita Tratorov,

Thank you for the report and reproducible steps.
Observed this on Win7 with WB 8.0.14.

thanks,
Umesh

Hello,
I have this problem too in win 7 with WB 8.0.15

Bug #95718 marked as duplicate of this one

Bug #95865 marked as duplicate of this one

I’d like to add a note from real-world experience:

When working with hundreds of tables in a model, an accidental Ctrl+V (a reflex action for most developers) results in an explosion of modal dialogs — one for each table on the diagram. This means potentially hundreds of clicks on “Cancel” or the close button, which is extremely frustrating.

Even being aware of the bug, it’s way too easy to fall into this trap by habit. Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are the most natural keyboard shortcuts for any coder, and just one moment of muscle memory can lead to a very painful cleanup session.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any workaround for this behavior.

Tested on Linux Mint 21.3 with MySQL Workbench 8.0.36.