Issue 58542 - bug when dragging db records to a text document
Summary: bug when dragging db records to a text document
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-11-28 10:08 UTC by zanonmark
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


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Sample dBase file (377 bytes, application/dbase)
2005-12-04 10:28 UTC, zanonmark
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Description zanonmark 2005-11-28 10:08:53 UTC
When you drag&drop records from a dBase database (I didn't check with other
formats) into a text document and you select the "Text" format, a lot of random
characters are added into the text that I would expect. Those characters are
actually part of the text itself.

Example:

INSTEAD OF

Name: John
Last Name: Smith
City: Atlanta

I SEE

Name: John
Las
Last Name: Smith
Ci
City: Atlanta
Comment 1 zanonmark 2005-11-28 10:09:40 UTC
Forgot to say: I'm using OOo 2.0 on Ubuntu (unofficial download from
http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/OOo2).
Comment 2 lars 2005-12-03 16:10:56 UTC
can you attach a sample db with which to reproduce the problem? thanks
Comment 3 zanonmark 2005-12-04 10:28:34 UTC
Created attachment 32022 [details]
Sample dBase file
Comment 4 zanonmark 2005-12-04 10:32:03 UTC
Note that the bug does NOT happen if you only select the fields with no
additional text.

For example:

=====
<FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME>
<LOCATION>
<ZIP>
=====

works, while:

=====
THIS IS A TEST

test:
<FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME>
<LOCATION>
<ZIP>
=====

scrambles the results, and you see:

=====
THIS IS A TES

test:

test:

John
Smith
Atlanta‗
12345
=====
Comment 5 zanonmark 2005-12-04 10:33:28 UTC
Forgot to say: tested with different dBase files, each one with different field
types and different charsets. It seems to me that it is not a bug with the dBase
engine (records are queried and displayed correctly).

Thanks.

MZ
Comment 6 lars 2005-12-04 10:35:43 UTC
cannot reproduce with OOo 2.01 RC2; can you give a step-by-step description of 
what to do to reproduce the bug? thanks
Comment 7 zanonmark 2005-12-04 11:00:49 UTC
- create a new text document
- open View > Data sources
- select Databasename > Tables > Tablename
- select all records
- drag them to your text document
- select Insert Database Columns > Insert data as > "Text"
- type something like the following
THIS IS A TEST

testing record:
<FIRSTNAME> <LASTNAME>
- hit OK and you will see (at least: I can see) the scrambled result.

Thanks,

MZ
Comment 8 lars 2005-12-04 11:12:39 UTC
confirmed on Windows XP Pro SP2 with OOo 2.0.1 RC2
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2005-12-06 12:10:18 UTC
Reassigned to MSC.
Comment 10 marc.neumann 2005-12-08 14:13:33 UTC
hi,

reassign to the right developer

msc -> os: please insert the sample text from  "zanonmark"

Bye Marc
Comment 11 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:22:49 UTC
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".