Copy&paste

[MikeBakerCZ]

Copy & paste (paste text as child node or paste and replace node text) doesnt work - does nothing. Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera.

[phase1geo]

What version of Minder are you running? You can run: com.github.phase1geo.minder —version

(That should be two dashes before ‘version’ in the above command.). I am not seeing any issues on my end with text copy and paste (both copying text from within Minder and copying text from an external application like Terminal).

[phase1geo]

Running the latest 0.10.0 (just released a few days ago).

[MikeBakerCZ]

terminal shows:

↳ com.github.phase1geo.minder --version
1.10.0

also after start it shows: (but I think it has nothing to do with copy&paste)

↳ com.github.phase1geo.minder          
/home/mikep/.local/share/minder/favorites.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -1 (allocation 1, extents 1x1) while allocating gadget (node notebook, owner GtkNotebook)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -10 and height 1201

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkRadioButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -12 (allocation 1, extents 6x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkRadioButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -12 (allocation 1, extents 6x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkRadioButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -12 (allocation 1, extents 6x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkRadioButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkColorButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -11 (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node label, owner GtkLabel)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_and_baseline_for_width: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content width -13 (allocation 1, extents 7x7) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: Negative content height -7 (allocation 1, extents 4x4) while allocating gadget (node button, owner GtkButton)

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:31:23.507: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -20 and height 1191

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:23.508: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 09:31:23.511: invalid cast from 'DrawArea' to 'GtkWindow'

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 09:31:23.512: invalid cast from 'DrawArea' to 'GtkWindow'

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:35.456: _gtk_widget_captured_event: assertion 'WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:15991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 09:31:35.456: _gtk_widget_captured_event: assertion 'WIDGET_REALIZED_FOR_EVENT (widget, event)' failed

[MikeBakerCZ]

I foud now another problem. When starting com.github.phase1geo.minder -n and press any key: [1] 16995 segmentation fault com.github.phase1geo.minder -n

[phase1geo]

I created a new bug report for the -n issue. I'll have to see if I can recreate it.

So what application are you copying text out of and then pasting text into Minder?

[daveiro]

I am having some related/other issues with copy/paste:

1. I cannot copy nodes from minder to another application... namely gedit. In freemind/freeplane nodes would be pasted one per line and sub nodes would be indented by a tab per sublevel

2. the other way around it works (copying text from gedit to minder) but behavior is not what I expected as it happened in freemind/freeplane, that is, when pasting several lines of text a new sub node should be created for each line; right now just one sub-node is created with all the lines inside

[MikeBakerCZ]

I created a new bug report for the -n issue. I'll have to see if I can recreate it.

So what application are you copying text out of and then pasting text into Minder?

I tried copy minder->minder, terminal->minder, sublime->minder. No luck, paste into minder doesnt work. Opposite direction work only with selected texts in minder but no with nodes from graph.

[phase1geo]

Trying to figure out the difference between my environment (which works) versus yours (which doesn’t). Is this using the Debian package or are you using Flatpak?

[MikeBakerCZ]

It is standard Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera. Minder is instaled from AppCenter.

[phase1geo]

I think I’m going to create a GitHub branch which will generate some additional output for debugging this issue on your end. I’ll provide instructions for how to sync, build and run from that branch when I have it setup if you are willing to do that.

[phase1geo]

Mike, have you ever cloned your own repository from GitHub and/or built an elementary application from source before? Just want to know how much detail to provide in regards to getting things setup. I have created a branch called "copy_paste_bug" to help diagnose this issue on your end. I may need to add more debug output going forward, so we may need to have you download/clone additional copies from this branch until I have the information I need.

Once you have the project downloaded and you have the debian packages required to build from source, you should be able to build/run the application by cd'ing to the top-level Minder directory and running './app run'.

[MikeBakerCZ]

Hi Trevor, I built the copy_paste_bug branch and copy&paste works on my system with a few glitches.

1. your log from console (ctrl+C, CTRL+V):

(com.github.phase1geo.minder:17837): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 08:39:20.487: gtk_widget_grab_default: assertion 'gtk_widget_get_can_default (widget)' failed
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
target: TIMESTAMP
target: TARGETS
target: MULTIPLE
target: UTF8_STRING
target: text/plain
target: STRING
target: image/png
target: x-application/minder-nodes
In set_with_data, info: 2
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
target: TIMESTAMP
target: TARGETS
target: MULTIPLE
target: SAVE_TARGETS
target: UTF8_STRING
target: COMPOUND_TEXT
target: TEXT
target: STRING
target: text/plain;charset=utf-8
target: text/plain
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
In set_with_data, info: 0
target: TIMESTAMP
target: TARGETS
target: MULTIPLE
target: UTF8_STRING
target: text/plain
target: STRING
target: image/png
target: x-application/minder-nodes
In set_with_data, info: 2

2. A little annoing is when I select a few nodes in graph, press ctrl+c and then click into graph, the graph will strangelly re-layout.
3. Child nodes (without parent) used in "Paste and Replace node text" will create bunch of root nodes which is a litlle unexpected :-)
4. Undo during all this copy paste experiments behave upredictible with graph layout and nodes positions (randomly walking around). Also in one moment its crashed with

ERROR:/usr/share/vala-0.40/vapi/glib-2.0.vapi:5321:vala_g_array_remove_index: assertion failed: (length > index)
[1]    17837 abort      ./com.github.phase1geo.minder -n

but I was unable to replicate it. sorry.

[MikeBakerCZ]

Another interesting thing. I build also master branch and copy&paste works correctly. Also the segfault with "-n" is gone. It looks like some problem with gtk lib?

[phase1geo]

@MikeBakerCZ Is this issue fixed in the 0.11.0 release? Or does it still exist?

[MikeBakerCZ]

copy&paste problem still exist. It works only in my local build.