On 25 Nov 2020 Harriet Bazley <lists(a)bazleyfamily.co.uk&gt; wrote: Seems to work here, if I've understood what you wrote. ARMX6, RISC OS 5.27, RiscOS version 5.27 (30-Sep-20) FWIW. Best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Tl) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk

Michael Drake, on 25 Nov, wrote: As tested on OS5.28 and later the URL drag and drop stops working with #5220. Checked with OS5.28 and later the text in the URL bar cannot be selected. The URL text can be selected fron the Open URL tool and then dragged out with OS5's drag and drop. -- David Pitt

On 26 Nov 2020 as I do recall, Bernard Boase wrote: Thanks for confirming. It's probably an unintentional loss of functionality and worth reporting. https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2799 -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.

My latest observation with #5223 and OS 5.27 is that if you click in Netsurf's URL field but not double-click nor do Ctrl-A nor otherwise select its text, then Ctrl-C does put the text in the field onto the clipboard for pasting elsewhere. Only trouble is if you do highlight the text in the field, then Ctrl-C doesn't work and there appears to be no way to deselect the text so as to do what I describe above. I haven't found any distinction between trying to operate on the icon's text and trying to do so on the favicon. -- Bernard

Thanks for raising the bug report, but I see that dragging the text that is in the URL writable icon is still not repaired in the dev versions. Since I frequently use the facility to drag URLs onto UniControl on the icon bar for rendering by the dark side, I have decided to revert to NetSurf 3.10 stable. It is in any case this version that gets into apps bundled with RISC OS, so many people may not see the bug. -- Bernard

On 4 Dec 2020 as I do recall, Bernard Boase wrote: I find myself frequently (and until these last few days I hadn't realise quite how frequently) doing Web-based research, then trying to drag the URLs of the page currently displayed in another Netsurf window into the one where I'm trying to cite the link. At the moment I'm constantly falling back onto the sub-sub-submenu Save location as text savebox, as I'm used to using the mouse. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Strategic withdrawal - running away with dignity!

In message <58d5f4ba4bStuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; lists <Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; wrote: You might need to be just a *little* bit more specific than that if you actually want anything done about it. Although in my experience, cut and paste works fine, I'm regularly using it. Bryan. -- RISC OS User Group Of London - http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/ RISC OS London Show - http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

In message <58d82e7635Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; lists <Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; wrote: I just tried that on my NetSurf #5223 and it worked fine to copy text from a web page into zap (except using Ctrl-Y on zap rather than Ctrl-V). I may be trying to do something different to what you meant, but if so your description wasn't as clear as it needs to be. -- Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

On 1 Dec 2020 as I do recall, lists wrote: I did discover a bug when trying to select and copy from the URL bar (which I was trying in order to circumvent the lack of drag, although it's a rather more laborious operation). If you use Ctrl-A to select the content of the icon, a single click elsewhere in the document (or even back in the same icon) doesn't then clear the selection. In fact, you can start a drag and create a *second* highlighted selection elsewhere in Netsurf - the URL bar just goes to a paler highlight, and then if you click in it again you end up with two black selected areas in the same window. Normally, clicking elsewhere in the same window is expected to clear any existing selection. The only way to clear the URL bar at all appears to be by an explicit Ctrl-Z with the cursor in the icon, and it took me a long time to discover that option for getting rid of it! If you 'select' the URL bar with Ctrl-A, then create a selection elsewhere, then click back into the URL bar (creating two simultaneous selections), then press Ctrl-C, doing a paste from the clipboard into another app will transfer the selected text from the URL bar, but doing a 'Selection->Save' via the menu structure will save the selection from the work area instead. :-D -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle.

On 1 Dec 2020 as I do recall, John Rickman wrote: [snip] You can't in versions later than v5220 - which is what started this thread. The feature has disappeared. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do

In article <7d1442d858.John@rickman.argonet..co.uk>, John Rickman <rickman(a)argonet.co.uk&gt; wrote: That's what I'm complaining about, you can no longer copy and paste and this system is very confusing as it's the only app that works like this and it used to behave "properly" before. Time and time again I find I've dropped a URL in the wrong place because I haven't put the cursor where I want the URL in a document, before starting the copy. It's a totally backwards system. -- Stuart Winsor Tools With A Mission sending tools across the world http://www.twam.co.uk/

In article <81675e57-bbf9-639f-ed1e-f83b97debdc5(a)codethink.co.uk&gt;, Michael Drake <tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org&gt; wrote: Thanks for that. I currently running 5.24 on an Iyonix That's fair enough. -- Stuart Winsor Tools With A Mission sending tools across the world http://www.twam.co.uk/

In article <725eadd858.harriet(a)bazleyfamily.co.uk&gt;, Harriet Bazley <lists(a)bazleyfamily.co.uk&gt; wrote: Saying 5.27 is no help - early versions had no relevant changes, middle ones had some changes that may or may not have worked, later ones were ok. So please will anyone referring to 5.27 also give the date?

On 02/12/2020 22:24, Harriet Bazley wrote: The star is a hotlist/bookmarks/favorites toggle. The favicon is either a website-specific icon, or if none is provided, the NetSurf content icon should be used as a fallback: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/images/content.png -- Michael Drake

In message <58d83a9b0bStuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; lists <Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; wrote: Arrggh, so why didn't you say that in the first place?!? In that case it is an icon, therefore the cut and paste is being handled by the Wimp since sometime around the end of last year (IIRC), so you'll need to report any problems on the ROOL forum. These changes will also be partly the cause of Harriet's original problem, as the Wimp's attempts to handle clicks/drags/highlights in the icon are overriding NetSurf's handling of it. To get round this, maybe NetSurf could have an icon at the end of the URL bar that can be dragged? (I know, RO developer needed!) Bryan. -- RISC OS User Group Of London - http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/ RISC OS London Show - http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/

In article <58d82e7635Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt;, lists <Stuartlists(a)orpheusinternet.co.uk&gt; wrote: Here using NS 5223 I can copy and paste without problems, I can also copy and paste out of the URL bar. But as Harriet notes, unlike in past times we cannot drag the URL out to another place. Dave -- Dave Triffid