[Bug 28942] Watchtower Library: Problem while copying text to the clipboard (Mac, doesn't occur on Linux)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28942

S <silas-wine at flatline.org.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from S <silas-wine at flatline.org.uk> 2012-06-14 19:39:09 CDT ---
The bug was introduced in WINE version 1.1.26.  (I confirmed it is in 1.5.5,
1.4, 1.2.3, 1.1.35, 1.1.30, 1.1.27 and 1.1.26, but not in 1.1.25, 1.1.24,
1.1.23 or 1.1.5.  I am using WineSkin on OS X 10.7.)

Maybe looking at the code differences between 1.1.25 and 1.1.26 would give a
clue about what it could be.

Meanwhile it is possible to install and run Watchtower Library 2011 on WINE
version 1.1.25 (at least in WineSkin); the first time you run it the text might
display as all squares, but this can be fixed by pressing F2 (Properties) and
setting a font.

(When copying, you always get plain text though.  If you are copying between
two WINE applications then you can copy and paste rich text with bold and other
formatting preserved, but this does not seem possible when copying from a WINE
application to a Mac application.)

I think the timing issue theory has some evidence, because if you use a buggy
version and make MANY attempts to copy text, it's possible that one of your
attempts will actually work.  (This happened to me but I could not reproduce
it.)  Copy failure happened whether the text is being copied from the main text
area or the search box.

Incidentally if you run Ubuntu Linux in VirtualBox (with guest additions
installed) and run WINE inside that, the clipboard sharing between VirtualBox
and Mac OS X seems to work OK as long as you put only a small amount of text on
the clipboard; if you put a large amount of text on the clipboard then it will
be ignored.  I don't know if this might also be to do with timing.

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