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List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] unwanted pasting of the current file path into my
From:       Børge_Holen <borge () arivene ! net>
Date:       2007-04-15 12:57:22
Message-ID: 200704151457.22720.borge () arivene ! net
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On Sunday 15 April 2007 13:08, Philip Payne wrote:
> Hello
>
> I use Quanta for all my web site developments
> I have just one problem  and I wonder if anybody is familiar with this ?
> If so maybe they could tell me if I am doing something wrong or if its a
> bug and can it be fixed ?
>
> I am plagued by pesky unwanted  recurrent pasting of the current file
> path into my working document, such as:
> *
> file:///media/samba/MYSERVER/www/SOMESITE/flash/include/spop3.inc*
> Etc ...
>
> You can imagine that I have to check all my files very good for this
> before putting them online, its time consuming and is starting to get me
> down!
>
> I am using Debian Testing 64 with Gnome.
>
> I have retraced my steps, I do quite a bit of cut and paste, working
> with php and html code, but I can't  figure how it happens there does
> not seem to be a pattern , I have checked the short cut keys in Quanta
> config but did not see any thing.
> I mainly use:
> CTRL V
> CTRL P
> CTRL D
> ALT TAB
> CTRL TAB
> Thats it..
> None of these shortcuts cause this..

No, but your mouse movement does.
You are pulling the tab name with one button down into the sheet. For me, this 
was probably caused by some latancy inside the mouse, cuz it dissapared the 
moment I changed the mouse, and resides when I switch back.

>
> Thanks for any help.
> Philip
>
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> >    1. Help with Quanta+ code (Munawar Hafiz)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:21:20 -0500
> > From: "Munawar Hafiz" <munawar.uiuc@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Quanta] Help with Quanta+ code
> > To: quanta@mail.kde.org
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a Ph.D. student at UIUC working with Professor Ralph Johnson. My
> > research interest is security and software architecture. At this point, I
> > am surveying existing software architecture for buffer overflow
> > vulnerability protection.
> >
> > I need some help understanding the Quanta+ codebase. In particular I have
> > three questions.
> >
> > 1. Does the C/C++ code use the string library functions (strcpy, strcat,
> > gets etc)?
> >
> > 2. Or does it use some sort of buffer bounds checking, either by
> > rewriting the string library, or checking before every buffer operation?
> >
> > 3. Is the bounds checking available from the first release, or it has
> > been included in a subsequent release? How did the development team go
> > about making this change in the code?
> >
> >
> > Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Munawar Hafiz
> > UIUC
> > https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mhafiz/www/
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:59:44 +0300
> > From: Andras Mantia <amantia@kde.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Quanta] Help with Quanta+ code
> > To: Quanta users list <quanta@mail.kde.org>
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Saturday 14 April 2007, Munawar Hafiz wrote:
> >> I need some help understanding the Quanta+ codebase. In particular I
> >> have three questions.
> >>
> >> 1. Does the C/C++ code use the string library functions (strcpy,
> >> strcat, gets etc)?
> >
> > No, they are generally avoided in favor of the QString class, which is
> > safer, easier to use and works with unicode internally.
> >
> >> 2. Or does it use some sort of buffer bounds checking, either by
> >> rewriting the string library, or checking before every buffer
> >> operation?
> >
> > See above.
> >
> >> 3. Is the bounds checking available from the first release, or it has
> >> been included in a subsequent release? How did the development team
> >> go about making this change in the code?
> >
> > QString was there since always, provided by the Qt library.
> > Generally when coding in C++ using the Qt and KDE libraries you don't
> > really have to think about boundary checking. Sure, there are cases
> > when it's not a good idea to access the n+1'd element of an array, but
> > this usually doesn't result in memory corruption, only in an error from
> > the framework (or in certain cases the n+1 element is added to the
> > array).
> > For strings there are only a few cases when you have to think about the
> > length of the string.
> >
> > Andras

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