Suggestion: remove FLWriter

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion: remove FLWriter
started by: wanderingidea

Posted by wanderingidea on Sep. 01 2005,06:35

Due to the lack of any response regarding a major bug in FLwriter (pasting text crashes the application) I would like to suggest replacing FLWriter by a more reliable wordprocessor.
If there are not any please remove it.
It is no fun editting a text and loosing it

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 02 2005,00:21

I just pasted 50 pages of text into a single document without trouble....so i don't know what could be wrong except maybe you ran out of memory?

By the way...i believe the "paste" menu item is just for internal cut&paste. I don't think it utilizes text copied from another program. Pasting from another program would require the standard select-then-middlemouse action (as far as i can tell).

Posted by wanderingidea on Sep. 02 2005,14:17

If you paste text only one time the problem will not occur.
But if you paste for example one line a few times FLwriter crashes.
I tried this on two pc's, one with 1 Gb internal memory and the other with 256 Mb.
Can you confirm this by trying please?

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 02 2005,14:23

That's pretty much what i did to paste the 50 pages =o)
I selected a block of text in Dillo/Firefox (can't remember which), and then pressed middle mouse in flwriter a few dozen times.
This was DSL 1.4, frugal.

Posted by wanderingidea on Sep. 02 2005,14:26

B.t.w. I copy and paste in FLwriter, not from another program.
And the line that I paste a few times does not contain a CRLF or LF. So when pasting it 'crosses' the right 'margin'.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 02 2005,14:28

I didn't try that....will do next time i boot DSL.

Posted by wanderingidea on Sep. 02 2005,14:30

I paste the text by pressing CTRL-V not by pressing a mouse button.
Maybe somehow that triggers the problem (?)

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 02 2005,14:30

I just tried pasting text multiple times in FLWriter (using CTRL-V) and it never crashed. I am using 1.4 Hdd install and only have 64MB in this machine. What version of DSL do you use that crashes FLWriter?

Posted by wanderingidea on Sep. 02 2005,14:34

I also use version 1.4.
I think I shall try a few variations on pasting text, by mouse and by keyboard, experiment a litte bit.