43169 - Can't choose criteria in filters and search dialogs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect, P3)

Description

[scottputterman]

In this morning's build, when you use the filter or search dialogs (3 Pane, Edit 
| Message Filters, and then choose New) the dropdowns that would let you enter 
the criteria are blank.  cc'ing hyatt in case this is related to the tree widget 
checkin

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

nominating for nsbeta2 and dogfood because search and filters are unusable now.

Comment 2

[leger]

Putting on [dogfood+][nsbeta2+] radar.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

just an update after debugging with hyatt - this is not a tree problem, we're
having the same problem with XBL widgets in this dialog that are not inside the
tree.

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

ok, putterman and I have tested this, and it looks like this started happening 
at exactly the point where the tree landed.

A few more details though
1) it only happens with dynamically created elements (with 
document.createElement())- if I put static <treecell><searchattribute> in the 
tree, then those elements work fine.
2) I've noticed that even the correctly-bound XBL widgets still show as 
[object XULElement]. This means the tests I was doing yesterday which seemed to 
show that even non-tree-related elements had problems were just wrong. I think 
in fact this is totally tree related.

reassigning to hyatt, and cc'ing brendan.
This is a dogfood bug, is blocking me from doing search work (or at least 
knowing if I've broken it or not)

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

This is kicking my ass.  I can't figure it out.

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

and just to update everyone - hyatt figured out what was going on yesterday - I 
have a rough patch in my tree, but he will be checking in a better patch in the 
near future.

Comment 7

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 8

[laurel]

OK  for both search and filters dialogs using july5 commercial build on linux
rh6.0, NT 4.0 and mac OS 9.0