ZeroClipboard error in newer versions of FireFox

jkrobbins

This a continuation of this post : http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/6997/flash-divs-wrong-size#Item_5 but the original symptom is fixed and this is a new issue.

I have my app working in IE8 and FF3.6, but in FF portable 6.0.2 and 7.0.1 the ZeroClipboard.js throws a "this.movie.clearText is not a function" error. The copy button works but copies zero rows to the clipboard.

Anyone else run into this issue? Anyone else using it successfully in these versions of FireFox?

jkrobbins

New symptom. The above happens on the initial load of the table. If I go to print view (where my column headings disappear) and then escape back to normal view, the copy button is now working.

gworrall

I am getting this problem as well. We are using a visual studio 2008 to embed a web browser into a simple application. This is used to brows the web page. First time the page is browsed everything works without a problem including resubmision of ajax requests. When we navigate the browser our of that page and then return to it we imediatly get the error for line 304 of DataTables-1.8.1/extras/TableTools/media/js/ZerosClipboard.js with error message "Object doesn't support this property or method". This is line "this.movie.clearText();".

The important bits of code I am using in the web page are

[code]









$(document).ready(function (){
oTable = $("#sectable").dataTable({bJQueryUI: true,
sDom: '<"H"Tlfr>t<"F"ip>',
bJQueryUI: true,
bDeferRender: true,
bAutoWidth: false,
sScrollX: "100%",
sScrollXInner: "100%",
oTableTools: {
sSwfPath: "../../DataTables-1.8.1/extras/TableTools/media/swf/copy_cvs_xls_pdf.swf",
sRowSelect: "multi",
aButtons: [ "copy", "csv", "xls", "pdf" ]
}
});
});

$("#myform").submit(function(event){
event.preventDefault();
oTable.fnClearTable();
$.post( "my_data.php", { tickerlist: ticklist }, function ( data ) {
oTable.fnAddData(data.aaData);
}, "json");
});
[/code]

Does anyone have a clue as to where the problem is?

homerjon

I am having this same problem. Lines 304 and 306 are throwing an error in IE7 IE8 & IE9. I was hoping this would solve a lot of my problems for pdf and excel export but yet alas. Please help. Is anyone else throwing these errors. I am using IETester to get these errors.

MikeS

It's been a long time since the last message was posted regarding this matter, however, I believe that I've discovered the source of these errors. When you use the dataTables plugin via the IE web browser control and you're trying to set the sSwfPath to a local folder, you must be certain to set the Flash Global Security Settings to mark that folder as "Always allow". This is stated elsewhere many time in this forum.

When I did that last step, I no longer received the error messages about clearText!!!! Furthermore, the TableTools examples that come with the dataTables package started to work. I could open the sample html files in IE and actually produce PDF reports.

The *bad* news is, I can't get the same PDF reports via the IE web browser control hosted on a form!!! I don't get any errors appearing, but, I also don't get any PDF :( It seems like the IE web browser control is somehow blocking the code when you try to click on the PDF option.