[SOLVED by Beta 4] WYSIWYG Editor and pasting from Outlook

[Mr ChriZ]

Sure you guys know this already, but when pasting
from Outlook (2007) the WYSIWGY editor is making a complete mess
of the formatting.

[Grudge]

Before or after you submit the post? The editor has no control over how the pasting itself works - that's a browser function. What type of data are you pasting? Can you provide a screenshot example?

[Mr ChriZ]

The pasting into the editor works fine, however after hitting the post button it all falls apart.

I'll provide some screenshots

[Mr ChriZ]

Screenshots attached

[Mr ChriZ]

I've also noticed unrelated to pasting, back slashes keep going missing.
I've not got a set of steps to reproduce it yet.

[Mr ChriZ]

All backslashes are being turned into escape characters.
Create a new post C:\Test with subject test.
Click post.
Go to modify.
It becomes either
C:est

OR fails to load the wysiwyg editor, reverting to the standard editor.
This can be seen on the SMF Community forum.

[Grudge]

Thanks - I think I know what the latter problem is but not the former.

I should be able to resolve the outlook pasting stuff but I'd need a little help to do so, in terms of some debugging - as it's clear that my html to bbc parsar isn't quite getting it right for the code.

Right I'd *really* appreciate is if you could add a few lines of test code, do the pasting/posting, then remove them again. After which you need to check your error log and PM me the results within it. Basically, what you'd need to do is open Subs-Editor.php and find:

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function html_to_bbc($text)
{


and after it add:

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log_error('GRUDGE' . base64_encode($text), 'debug');


Then simply do your normal "post" and then check the error log. You should see an error message against your username which will be entirely non-readable but will start 'GRUDGE' and be followed by a huge serious of letters and numbers. Can you paste the whole content of this to me via PM, I can then see what your browser submitted to your site for posting and do all the testing required on my end.

Thanks,

Grudge

[Mr ChriZ]

PM Sent, let me know if you'd like me to test a fix!

[Mr ChriZ]

Earlier I Used your Test board now that your forums are up to Beta 4, and and confirm that outlook pasting is now working 

The C: est problem remains however.