[CAY-1182] New copy and paste menu items should distinguish between copying objects and copying text

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0M5
• Fix Version/s: Undefined future
• Component/s: Modeler
• Environment: os x 10.5; java 1.5.
• Assignee: Andrey Razumovsky
• Reporter: Robert Zeigler
• Created: 23/Feb/09 18:35
• Updated: 06/Jan/10 10:04

Description

I had some text that I wanted to copy and paste from one SQLTemplate to another. After highlighting the text, I went to edit->copy, selected my other query, placed the cursor, and did edit->paste. To my surprise*, the entirety of the sql template content (from all adapters that had content registered) was pasted. Given that copy/paste shortcuts work (well, /almost/ work on OS X, see CAY-1149) within the text panes, as a user, I would expect the copy/paste menu items to work as expected. What may be tricky is figuring out the appropriate context. But, in general, if there is selected text, I would assume that edit->copy/edit->cut should act on the select text, otherwise, they should work at the objentity/dbentity/query level.

*to be fair, the "copy" button did say copy /query/, rather than copy text, so I shoulda known, but...