<AWT Dev> [10] JDK-8194135: The content in textArea can not be pasted after clicking "Copy" button.

[shashidhara veerabhadraiah]

Hi Semyon, I ran those tests and found to be passed on the selected platforms. Since in linux platforms, we can’t have multiple selections visible at the same time, I have made a different test MultiSelectionTest along with other test cases as is in the HidingSelectionTest. This test passes on the linux platform and fails on other platforms because of the behaviour change on the linux platform.

Thanks and regards,
Shashi

> On 16-Jan-2018, at 10:02 PM, Semyon Sadetsky <semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shashi,
> 
> HidingSelectionTest may not pass after your change because the component selection is not cleared after the input focus transfer within the containing window.
> 
> --Semyon
> 
> 
> On 01/13/2018 03:32 AM, shashidhara veerabhadraiah wrote:
>> Hi Semyon, I think that the ownsSelection flag handles the cases well and no need for any other conditions I felt. I confirmed this by running the older test(HidingSelectionTest) on all the platforms and the tests passed. Please let me know any particular reasons for adding those conditions.
>> 
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Shashi
>> 
>>> On 12-Jan-2018, at 10:08 PM, Semyon Sadetsky <semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Shashi,
>>> 
>>> Why did change generic DefaultCaret class while only platform specific behavior should be fixed?
>>> 
>>> --Semyon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 01/12/2018 02:22 AM, shashidhara veerabhadraiah wrote:
>>>> Hi All, Please review a fix for the bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8194135
>>>> 
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sveerabhadra/8194135/webrev.00/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esveerabhadra/8194135/webrev.00/>
>>>> 
>>>> Summary: The text selection visibility behaves differently on linux/solaris platforms compared to windows or Mac platforms. There were 2 related fixes that went in this area. There are: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-5100950 and https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188081. While fixing the bug 5100950, a mistake was made to clear out the selection data. This behaviour is NOT the native behaviour as found in other native applications. The behaviour always is to retain the selection data and control the visibility of it depending on the conditions. On linux flavours we display only one selection data and upon toggling active application we get to see the selection data of that particular application hence we never loose the data. These behaviour differences are tested via the test components attached with this fix.
>>>> Considering the time, this fix addresses only the awt text components like textarea and textfield. Both these classes uses the same caret implementation, hence a change to the XAWTCaret is sufficient to reflect to both the text components. Swing based text components will be addressed later if there are any issues found.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>> Shashi
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