<AWT Dev> Cannot paste large amounts of text

[Denis S. Fokin]

Hi Emil,

thank you for the report and for the proposal. I will look at this shortly.

Thank you,
    Denis.

On 9/18/2012 6:10 PM, Emil Goicovici wrote:
> Also reported onbugs.sun.com  <http://bugs.sun.com>  with bug id 7199196.
>
>
> Using either Oracle JRE 1.7.0_06-b24 or OpenJDK 1.7.0_07 under Ubuntu 12.04 OS, I cannot paste large amounts of
> text in java applications. Running the same app with JRE 6 I can paste such
> texts without any issue.
>
> After some debugging I've found that the incremental transfer implemented
> inside sun.awt.X11.XSelection.getData() method contains one typo that has been
> introduced by this changeset:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u-gate/jdk/rev/6fd2d28e66cd
>
> This changeset was required to ensure that isExecuted() is always performed
> after the isDisposed() call , but one typo slipped in here: the second chunk
> replaced incrDataGetter.isXXX() calls with validateDataGetter(dataGetter) .
> But, as dataGetter is already disposed on line 342, the incremental transfer
> operation will fail with an IOException: Owner failed to convert data.
>
> I've attached the proposed patch to this e-mail.
>
>
> Emil Goicovici
>