Pasting test into a Wiki from the RTC embedd browser
We use a Wiki to collaborate on design material. One neat feature of RTC is that you can link to URLs within tasks. RTC will open those links in an embedded browser.
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
10 answers
kbowkett wrote:
Where do you paste the text to? To a wiki page of your Wiki or to an
attached plan page? Can you pls attach a screen shot that shows your issue?
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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
We use a Wiki to collaborate on design material. One neat feature of
RTC is that you can link to URLs within tasks. RTC will open those
links in an embedded browser.
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our
clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It
adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki
page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address
location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse
Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
Where do you paste the text to? To a wiki page of your Wiki or to an
attached plan page? Can you pls attach a screen shot that shows your issue?
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
kbowkett wrote:
We use a Wiki to collaborate on design material. One neat feature of
RTC is that you can link to URLs within tasks. RTC will open those
links in an embedded browser.
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our
clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It
adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki
page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address
location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse
Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
Where do you paste the text to? To a wiki page of your Wiki or to an
attached plan page? Can you pls attach a screen shot that shows your issue?
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
The scenario is as follows...
As Kevin said, we're using a wiki alongside RTC. So I started putting links to wiki pages in iteration plan overviews and such like. I like the way that the RTC Eclipse client will open up the page in the wiki in another tab within Eclipse. But when I go into edit mode for the wiki page in that tab, then paste does not work properly (I discovered this when trying to add a link back from the wiki page to the Planned Items in RTC).
On Linux (Fedora 11) the paste operation puts the clipboard contents into the address field and not at the cursor position within the document. When I asked a colleague to reproduce the problem on Windows, we saw the paste put the clipboard content into both the address field and the document.
I'm assuming that the RTC team just use the standard Eclipse browser plugin, but I've not tried to reproduce this in a vanilla Eclipse context.
kbowkett wrote:
We use a Wiki to collaborate on design material. One neat feature of
RTC is that you can link to URLs within tasks. RTC will open those
links in an embedded browser.
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our
clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It
adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki
page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address
location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse
Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
Where do you paste the text to? To a wiki page of your Wiki or to an
attached plan page? Can you pls attach a screen shot that shows your issue?
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
Its not clear how I post screenshots? I can not seem to find a way to attach pictures to a post. I don't have a way to host it as a URL either.
Hopefully, Ian's update will clarify the situation, if not let me know how to add a screenshot and I will do so.
ijmitch wrote:
So that problem is that the embedded browser doesn't perform the paste
operation as expected? In that case you should try to use the default
browser. Open the RTC preferences, select General > Web Browser and
select Use external browser. Pls try if that works.
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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
zrlrkewrote:
kbowkett wrote:
We use a Wiki to collaborate on design material. One neat feature
of
RTC is that you can link to URLs within tasks. RTC will open those
links in an embedded browser.
However, we've found an annoying feature. If we paste text from our
clipboard into the wiki page in edit mode it behaves strangely. It
adds the text to address location and, if on Windows, into the Wiki
page as we'd expect. On Linux it only adds it to the address
location.
So there seems to be an issue with browser usage in the RTC Eclipse
Client.
has anyone else experiences this? :
Where do you paste the text to? To a wiki page of your Wiki or to an
attached plan page? Can you pls attach a screen shot that shows your
issue?
So that problem is that the embedded browser doesn't perform the paste
operation as expected? In that case you should try to use the default
browser. Open the RTC preferences, select General > Web Browser and
select Use external browser. Pls try if that works.
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
Yes, the problem is with the embedded browser pasting text into a textarea in a form (which is the way the edit page for our wiki is presented).
Unsurprisingly, setting the preference to use the external browser (Firefox in my case) is a functional work-around, but does not match the smoothness of the experience I was hoping for - I really like the embedded browser showing content linked from data in RTC.
Unsurprisingly, setting the preference to use the external browser (Firefox in my case) is a functional work-around, but does not match the smoothness of the experience I was hoping for - I really like the embedded browser showing content linked from data in RTC.
ijmitch wrote:
AFAIK this is known issue of the embedded browser widget Eclipse uses. I
think this got fixed for Eclipse 3.5
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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
Yes, the problem is with the embedded browser pasting text into a
textarea in a form (which is the way the edit page for our wiki is
presented).
Unsurprisingly, setting the preference to use the external browser
(Firefox in my case) is a functional work-around, but does not match
the smoothness of the experience I was hoping for - I really like the
embedded browser showing content linked from data in RTC.
AFAIK this is known issue of the embedded browser widget Eclipse uses. I
think this got fixed for Eclipse 3.5
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
AFAIK this is known issue of the embedded browser widget Eclipse uses. I
think this got fixed for Eclipse 3.5
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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
Hi - thanks for the update. When might we see this as part of RTC?
thanks,
Ian Mitchell
Hi Ian
RTC can be installed in Eclipse 3.5 today (the phrase used is RTC "tolerates" 3.5 if I remember correctly). We just don't ship RTC with Eclipse 3.5 yet. Please bear in mind, given this has not been officially tested, it is not an officially supported Eclipse version for 2.0 at the moment (see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg21391788)
anthony
Hi Ian
RTC can be installed in Eclipse 3.5 today (the phrase used is RTC "tolerates" 3.5 if I remember correctly). We just don't ship RTC with Eclipse 3.5 yet. Please bear in mind, given this has not been officially tested, it is not an officially supported Eclipse version for 2.0 at the moment (see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3488&uid=swg21391788)
anthony
Great - I wondered if something like this was possible - I'll give it a go