Closed Bug 203730 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

sometimes caret doesn't appear in mail compose window

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 203827

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

(Keywords: access)

i can get into a state where the caret doesn't appear in the mail compose
window. so far i only see this on mac (os x 10.2.5); haven't seen it yet on
win2k or linux rh8.0.

to observe, open a mail compose window --doesn't matter if it's plaintext or
html compose. the caret should be blinking in the To: field, but instead i don't
see the caret at all. if you don't see this immediately, close the compose
window and reopen another one. (fwiw, i use cmd+shift+M to bring up the window.)

since there's no caret, text entry doesn't work. workaround: hit the tab key,
then the caret appears in To:, and text entry works.

occurs with 2003.04.28 comm bits, but also with a build from 2003.04.23. so, i'm
not sure if this is recent regression.

has anyone seen this on other platforms?
ninoschka says this is a dup (either here or in bugscape), but we cannot find
the previous bug. pls dup as needed.
Whiteboard: DUPME
ninoschka, were you thinking of bug 141648? that was reported for Mac OS 9, and
verified fixed last year. ducarroz mentioned another bug he spun off from it,
but i couldn't find one.
see also bug 195798 comment 10 --looks like this bug comes and goes.
Keywords: nsbeta1
Whiteboard: DUPME
dup of 203827, which list 3 scenarios for this behavior to show up.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 203827 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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