Restriction on Copying and Scrolling

[dagrawalla]

Description

The log viewer component currently prevents users from scrolling down while copying text. Consequently, only the text visible on the screen can be copied, making it impossible to copy the entire log or reach certain lines that are not initially visible.

The copying and scrolling work with key controls but not with the mouse.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the log viewer component.
2. Attempt to scroll down while copying the log text.
3. Observe that copying is restricted to only the visible text on the screen.

Expected Behavior

It should be possible to copy and scroll down the text within the log viewer up to a certain limit, including lines that are not initially visible.

Actual Behavior

Copying is restricted to the text visible on the screen, preventing the entire log text from being copied, including lines that are not visible.

Environment

• Package Version: ^5.2.0
• Browser: Chrome, Safari

Screenshots

[nicolethoen]

This is an interesting problem, because since the log viewer is vitrtualized, it is only rendering the visible text in the DOM - there is no other text to copy. It might be that a button should be added to the log viewer's toolbar which adds the whole content in the stream to the clipboard?

[dagrawalla]

I have a string of data separated by new lines and an overscan count of approximately 60. Initially, all lines are present in the DOM, and with the overscan count, I expect to copy at least X lines.
Copying and Scrolling works fine with keyboard controls, but it doesn't work with mouse.

[nicolethoen]

hm... yeah using the overScanCount should enable you to copy more lines with mouse click. I'm not sure what's happening here. Will likely take more investigation, and I'm not sure we have bandwidth to dig into this particularly soon. If you discover anything else which may help in the investigation, let us know. We'd absolutely welcome a contribution.

[dagrawalla]

Hi @nicolethoen, Has the issue been resolved in version 5.3.0? Do we need any extra props to be added?

[dagrawalla]

Hi @nicolethoen, do we have any new updates?

[nicolethoen]

I don't currently have an update. We haven't had a lot of resources to investigate the log viewer issues super recently. But it still has a P1 tag, so as soon as we do, this is toward the top of the list.