- /* this is a true error as we checked for the presence of such data before */
- wxCHECK_MSG( m_formatSupported, false, wxT("error retrieving data from clipboard") );
+ /*
+ Normally this is a true error as we checked for the presence of such
+ data before, but there are applications that may return an empty
+ string (e.g. Gnumeric-1.6.1 on Linux if an empty cell is copied)
+ which would produce a false error message here, so we check for the
+ size of the string first. In ansi, GetDataSize returns an extra
+ value (for the closing null?), with unicode, the exact number of
+ tokens is given (that is more than 1 for special characters)
+ (tested with Gnumeric-1.6.1 and OpenOffice.org-2.0.2)
+ */
+#if wxUSE_UNICODE
+ if ( format != wxDF_UNICODETEXT || data.GetDataSize(format) > 0 )
+#else // !UNICODE
+ if ( format != wxDF_TEXT || data.GetDataSize(format) > 1 )
+#endif // UNICODE / !UNICODE
+ {
+ wxCHECK_MSG( m_formatSupported, false,
+ wxT("error retrieving data from clipboard") );
+ }