Is the "Select all" link failing?

[aGerman]

I disabled all Chrome plugins, cleared the cache, re-opened Chrome. No changes ...

When I firstly clicked at Select all then the code box looks like that:

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after the second click it looks like this:

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There is a difference that I didn't notice in the first place. As you can see the marked text is grayed in the first picture. That indicates that it is inactive (losts the keyboard focus). No idea why this happens but for that reason Ctrl+C doesn't work. In the second picture you see that the marked text is active and thus, Ctrl+C works.

Steffen

[admin]

So the "Remember Me" is good now, great!

Steffen,
Your images help understanding the issue. I'll update the forum and styles and see if that helps.

Peter

[aGerman]

Peter,

please get back to us after you updated the forum source.

Thanks!
Steffen

[aGerman]

I noticed that the "Select all" link seems to be working again using Chrome. Can anyone confirm?

Steffen

[Aacini]

Yes. The "Select all" is correctly working now with Chrome.

Antonio

[aGerman]

Thanks Antonio! Either Peter fixed it and didn't tell us or Google updated the Chrome browser which I didn't realize

Steffen

[thefeduke]

Thanks Antonio! Either Peter fixed it and didn't tell us or Google updated the Chrome browser which I didn't realize

Steffen

Now that "Select all" seems to work, I have a related question. Before there was a "select all", I used to drag the mouse from beyond the end of the last line of code to its first character (in either direction) and select "copy" on a right-click. When pasting into my favorite editor the last line was omitted if it was a single ")" or "}" character which often led to execution errors until I noticed. Notepad works fine and my editor handles the clipboard OK when I use "Select all".

"Select all" is easier, so I have no problem to solve. But, I must conclude that the data in the clipboard has different content when created using these two methods.

Can anyone offer an explanation?

John A.

[penpen]

But, I must conclude that the data in the clipboard has different content when created using these two methods.

Can anyone offer an explanation?

If you use a Browser to view a webpage, then your browser does the following:
- downloads the webpage resources (HTML files, JavaScipt files, ...),
- creates a DOM (Document Object Model) which could be seen as an invisible tree representation of the webpage in RAM, and
- creates a view of the actual webpage.

If you are using the Mouse (or similar) to mark something, then you only mark something in the resulting view.
The javascript functionality behind "Select all" marks the content of an object in the DOM.

The view might have rules for dealing with marking text; for example:
If the marked area is big enough then only mark full words;
Or treat some text as unmarkable.
This might make it impossible to mark the same region as the "Select all"-feature.

Even if the region is the same, there might be differences (although there shouldn't be any in theory).
Mainly these differences are caused by rendering speed optimizations; for example:
The view might contain an incomplete copy of the DOM-data, so you only can copy this incomplete data.


penpen

[thefeduke]

Even if the region is the same, there might be differences (although there shouldn't be any in theory).

Thank you for the reply. I think that I have stumbled upon a simpler answer for this particular situation. The following two examples appear the same, but use the "code" tags differently:

Code: Select all

(@Echo.Running %~nx0
)

Code: Select all

(@Echo.Running %~nx0
)

If pasted into notepad repeatedly the former adds to the end of the previous paste while the latter adds on the next line. The [/code] tag starts on its own line in that latter but abuts the code in the former, suppressing the normal CRLF. My favorite editor is looking for CRLF to end a line and just loses it when it is absent.

John A.

[aGerman]

Both of your examples don't the new line characters at the end. Only if you have a blank line before the closing tag it you will have it in the code box.

This

Code: Select all

[code](@Echo.Running %~nx0
)

[/code]

results in that

Code: Select all

(@Echo.Running %~nx0
)

although I never had problems with missing new line characters in the editors I use (PSPad, Notepad++, Notepad).

Steffen

[Aacini]

The "Select all" link + Ctrl-C key is not working again! I need to click the right button and select Copy...

[aGerman]

Same here Antonio. Again it's only an issue with Chrome. But this time the marked text doesn't seem lose the keyboard focus. Strange

Steffen