odd issue prevent me to copy or paste into text fields, only at times

[adv0r]

I'm finding a very odd issue that I was able to replicate on multiple machines.

I have an html+js app that I wrapped around with Electron. I am having problem with the MacOS distribution.
There is one HTML text field that won't let me paste text into it. This bug only happens after I follow the procedure to distribute the app (copy my app/ folder into Electron.app).

In all the other instances, I can copy or paste just fine :

• when I run it via npm start (mac and win)
• when I run it by doubleclicking electron.app and dragging app/ over it
• on windows

I wonder, what can be the difference there? How can I debug something like this?

[zcbenz]

This is very likely a duplicate of #1151.

[adv0r]

Thanks for pointing that out.

in #1151 the problem seems to be related to focus. This isn't happening to me, in fact I can type freely into the field. I just cannot paste into it or copy text from it.

The solution moreover seems to be specific to Atom, while I am not using it at all here :

specifying the full path to the Atom command within Atom.app solved the issue for me.

[zcbenz]

Can you provide an example app?

[adv0r]

not as-is, let me try to reduce it to the minimum

[adv0r]

@zcbenz here you can try to reproduce it yourself

http://gofile.me/6nytF/6RM4yvTI . I had to stripe down quickly most unrelated files and html elements. Some fonts and css and js are still there so you can reproduce it .

Try to run it with npm start (mac) , and then by placing it inside Electron.app .

Basically cmd+a, cmd+c and cmd+v are disabled (only in the second case) ..

additional note, maybe un-related maybe not. When ran with npm start ,I get an error in console the first time I select any text in that form :

2016-01-18 16:22:32.485 Electron Helper[29342:6918638] Couldn't set selectedTextBackgroundColor from default () 

[zcbenz]

The link says "Unable to download file(s).".

I guess you are not creating an application menu for your app, the default app of Electron will create a default application menu when running an app, but once packaged the default application menu will be gone. All the default accelerators rely on the application menu to work.

[adv0r]

the link expired, sorry for the inconvenience. here is the new link, validity extended for a week

I guess you are not creating an application menu for your app

You are right, I am not creating it. Should I try creating one following this tutorial?

[zcbenz]

Should I try creating one following this tutorial?

Yeah, the template in Menu docs is a good start, you might want to remove the devtools related items in final product.

[adv0r]

Thanks, I tried: I added a basic application menu to my application.

As a result now I am unable to cmd+[a|c|v] also when launched via npm start

I packed the sample app and re-uploaded here

[zcbenz]

That's because you didn't add menu items for copy/paste.

[adv0r]

That fixed it, thanks.
EDIT:
I wonder if I can use the same technique to disable refreshing (or if you know a different way to disable it)

Edit2: Yes, I could disable refreshing this way