374601 - Modal dialog is not truly modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197351

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Carl Fritch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

When you open a window in firefox with the modal=yes you do not get a truly modal window.  The code in the javascript continues to execute after the window opens.

Consider the following:
window.open('dt.enewsroom.econtact.EditOneEmployeeType.cls','New Type','status,scrollbars,modal=true,resizable,width=300,height=225');
	alert('window is not modal');

On MS Explorer the alert will not execute until after the "modal" window is closed.


This is tied to an issue I sent to Intersystems listed below.  Thier zenpopupwindow() opens a window "modal" by default.  Please contact them if you have any questions about their system.


Thanks,
Carl
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:35 AM
To: [e-mail]; Dimitri Fane; [e-mail]; Carl Fritch; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Subject: Cache 656977 High Digital Technology International, LLC. Open

Problem No: 656977
Status: Open	Priority: High	Open Date: 19 Mar 2007	Open Time: 12:34PM
Advisor: Albert Goins	Product: Caché Unknown	Hardware: 	Next Action Date: 21 Mar 2007	Type: Investigate
End User: Digital Technology International, LLC.	Application Provider: Digital Technology International, LLC.	Contact: Carl Fritch	Classification: Zen

Customer Description: popup window is not modal in Zen

    
When I create zen popup window using Firefox it is not "modal".
we tried adding "modal" and 
"modal=true" to the popup windows parameters but they did not work:

Method newButtonClicked() [ Language = 
javascript 
]
{
	//zenPage.getComponentById('contactTypeId')
//	zenLaunchPopupWindow(url,'mediaPreview','status,scrollbars,resizable,width=400,height=400');
	var x = 
zenLaunchPopupWindow('dt.enewsroom.econtact.EditOneEmployeeType.cls','Edit 
Type','status,scrollbars,resizable,width=300,height=225');
	//alert('after zenlaunch');
	
	var employeeTypeName = 
zenPage.SessionRead('employeeTypeName','a');
	return;
	var newsCheckValue = zenPage.SessionRead('newscheckValue','false');
	var mediaCheckValue = 
zenPage.SessionRead('mediaCheckValue','false');
	
	if (employeeTypeName.length > 0) // something to 
do
	{
		var newsChk = 0;
		var mediaChk = 0;
		if (newsCheckValue.indexOf('true') > -1)
			newsChk 
= 1;
	    if (mediaCheckValue.indexOf('true') > -1)
	       mediaChk = 1;
	    
	    var status = 
zenPage.insertIntoTable(employeeTypeName,newsChk,mediaChk); 
	    
zenPage.getComponentById('contactTypeId').executeQuery(1);  		
	}
}

    


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create code that has a modal window 
2. place an alert('') after that code
3.load the window... note the alert will execute after the modal window is loaded
Actual Results:  
see notes:

Expected Results:  
A modal window should come to the forground.  The code that calls the window should stop execution until the modal window is closed.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 197351 or bug 360312.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

mid air 

You need special privileges to use modal windows. They do block further execution but does not keep the window on top. 

See bug 197351 and bug 180048.

Use:

function f() {
   try {
      netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalBrowserWrite');
      window.open('http://localhost/', 'name', 'modal');
      alert('foo');
   } 
   catch(ex)
   { 
     alert(ex); 
   }
}

f();

I can't get alwaysRaised to work though.