fxruby users - Jul 2012 - FXTable copy/paste issue

I have an issue with using C-c/C-v for copy/paste in FXTable in an application 
which uses fxruby under X.  (I suspect this is a FOX rather than fxruby issue.)
If I use C-c to copy the contents of a cell that contains a comma
('','') and then
try to paste it using C-v into another cell, the contents get pasted into two
adjacent cells with the contents split at the comma, e.g.,

| Hartford, Ct |   ->   | Hartford | Ct      | 

and if fact, if the target cell is in the last column of the table, a *new*
column springs up unbidden to hold the second part.  Is there a way of avoiding 
this?

-- 
William Parsons

2012/7/1 William Parsons <wbparsons at
alum.mit.edu>:
> I suspect this is a FOX rather than fxruby issue.
Yes, you''re right, it is a libfox issue. There is a hard coded split
in fox/src/FXTable.cpp#1528 that is used for pasting from the
clipboard. Columns are separated by "\t" or "," and rows by
"\n". I
verified this for libfox-1.6.45 and for 1.7.33.

In order to work around this limitation you may do the insertion from
clipboard by yourself. You could do this by deriving FXTable. This
works for Linux. For other OS you may have to try alternatives to
FXTable.utf8Type as seen in src/FXTable.cpp.

  class MyFXTable < Fox::FXTable
    include Responder
    def initialize(*args, &block)
      super
      FXMAPFUNC(SEL_COMMAND, FXTable::ID_PASTE_SEL,
''onCmdPasteSel'')
    end
    def onCmdPasteSel(sender, sel, ptr)
      data = getDNDData(FROM_CLIPBOARD, FXTable.utf8Type)
      if data && anythingSelected?
        rows_cols = data.split("\n").map{|l| l.split("\t") }
        row_nr = selStartRow
        max_cols = 0
        rows_cols.each do |cols|
          col_nr = selStartColumn
          cols.each do |text|
            setItemText( row_nr, col_nr, text)
            col_nr += 1
          end
          row_nr += 1
          max_cols = [max_cols, cols.length].max
        end
        selectRange(selStartRow, selStartRow+rows_cols.length-1,
selStartColumn, selStartColumn+max_cols-1)
      end
    end
  end


You may file a bug on the fox toolkit?

--
Regards,
Lars