Bug 47551 - EDITING: Bad interaction with other WINDOWS tool "Clipboarder" (and may be others)
Summary: EDITING: Bad interaction with other WINDOWS tool "Clipboarder" (and may be ot...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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Master old -3.6
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2012-03-20 01:05 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Modified: 2015-11-01 09:49 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-20 01:05:30 UTC
Steps how to reproduce the bug with "LibreOffice 3.5.1.2 German UI/Locale [Build-ID: dc9775d-05ecbee-0851ad3-1586698-727bf66] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) and with this
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=58690>
sample document you find here: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40958#c18>

First I thought "Bug 40958 - EDITING: Copy row to clipboard incomplete ... or: pasting copied row to other rows, makes that data in that row is repeated until the last column" might have reappeared, but it's only similar, not identical.

Currently I only see the problem on 1 PC with all various 3.5 installations already with Master builds from July 2011.
LibO 3.3 and LibO 3.4 are not affected.

The problem is not dependent to the User Profile.

Launching LibO 3.5 in WIN7 Protected Mode heals the problem, so it seems to be some interaction with other programs, drivers, ... . It seems that 3.5. has a particular vulnerability 

Any ideas how to find the evildoer?

It seems the problem appears during the Copy process: 
I did some tests with 3.4.5 and 3.5.1 spreadsheet each containing "x" in B2, copying complete row to row 10 or later in same spreadsheet and to other version, always after havinb selected now rew by click on row header before paste.

3.5.1 source 
to 3.5.1: "x" in each cell of new row (NOT correct)
to 3.4.5: "x" only in first cell (NOT correct)

3.4.5 source 
to 3.5.1: "x" only column B cell of new line (correct)
to 3.4.5: "x" only column B cell of new line (correct)
Comment 1 Stephan Hennig 2012-03-20 03:17:52 UTC
WFM

Win XP SP3
LibreOffice 3.5.1.2 
Build-ID: dc9775d-05ecbee-0851ad3-1586698-727bf66

Procedure:

1. Download and open file <URL:https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=58690>.

2. Click row header of row 5.

3. Press Ctrl+C.

4. Click row header of row 20.

5. Press Ctrl+V.


In step 4, alternatively clicking just cell A20 then continuing with step 5 works fine, too.  Cell B20 contains 'Grape' while all other cells of row 20 remain empty.
Comment 2 Markus Mohrhard 2012-03-20 09:01:18 UTC
Can you please check with 3.5.2 RC1 and/or up-to-date master builds.  Normally there should now be no way to produce such a bug with my latest fixes.
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-20 11:07:21 UTC
Still [Reproducible] with parallel installation of "LOdev 3.5.2rc0+  [Build ID: ec752de-73cb0b8-f269e46] Win-x86@6-fast pull time 2012-03-19 11:08:23 – WIN7 Home Premium (64bit).

I doubt that that is a simple "LibO bug", but some kind of LibO vulnerability concerning interference from other software.

May be my PC is the only one in the Universe suffering from that, but I would like to find the reason, you never know. Can you help me with ideas how to use my result that the problem disappears in WIN Protected Mode?
Comment 4 Stephan Hennig 2012-03-20 16:04:12 UTC
The graphics driver comes to mind.  Could you check if it's not a rendering problem, i.e., if single cells from the copied row are indeed non-empty?
Comment 5 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-20 22:35:26 UTC
@Stephan Hennig:
The cells are really with contents, <control+end> leads to column AMJ, and in sample document you see "fruit" until end.
Comment 6 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-21 10:01:48 UTC
I found the evildoer: <http://nes.bplaced.net/Features.html>
(I had used it for my tests for 
>Bug 45533 - EDITING: Pasting TABLE as RTF from SPSS fails>

After elimination of that tool LibO now works without problems
Comment 7 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-21 10:43:14 UTC
I sent a feedback to tool's creators with reference to this Bug.
It remains a strange thing that there was no problem with 3.4.
Comment 8 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-03-21 22:19:24 UTC
I got some feedback of the developer of the Clipboarder tool, I believe LibO 3.5 vulnerability concerning bad interaction should be checked, because there was no problem with 3.4

Author's feedback:

Hi,
I'm the author of that program and I'm afraid it's your bug anyway. Clipboarder retrieves all clipboard data when the clipboard is changed. Since you obviously use delayed rendering your program recieves a WM_RENDERFORMAT message for every format as soon as it sets the clipboard and then somehow screws up your internal data structures while processing that message. It may look like it's the fault of clipboarder, but in fact any program can read the clipboard at any time. It's just kind of unusual that clipboarder reads out all clipboard formats, but I can't fix it on my side without using dirty hacks...
(BTW your clipboard data loses information when restarting the application and you have some high-dpi scaling bugs.)

Ciao
Helmut
Comment 9 retired 2013-12-22 12:46:11 UTC
This bug is very old. I have no windows nor have I ever heard of Clipboarder.

Is this bug still valid / reproducible with the latest LO release?  Currently 4.1.4.1: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

Should this be still reproducible for you with the latest LO release please set this bug back to NEW. Should this issue be solved set it to WORKSFORME.

Setting to NEEDINFO until more detail is provided.
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2014-07-08 17:28:53 UTC
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