573736 - Android onscreen keyboard does not reappear when touching already-focused input

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Santiago Hollmann [:nuno]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 FireTorrent/2.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android;U;Linux armv7l; en-US;rv:1.9.3.a6pre) Gecko/20100622 namoroka/3.7a6pre Fennec/2.0a1pre

When you want to retype the URL the soft keyboard crashes. So you cant retype. They keyboard will appear just for a second.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press the URL Bar.
2. Write or not.
3. Push the back button.
4. Press the URL Bar.

Actual Results:  
They keyboard will appear just for a second and then i will disappear.

Expected Results:  
I expect the soft keyboard in order to write the url.

I tried it on Android 2.1 in a Motorola Milestone (Argentina).

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This affects all text fields, not just the urlbar.  Updating summary.

Comment 3

[Julia BUCHNER]

It's not working either on HTC Desire Android 2.1 with Fennec 1.

To resolve this issue, I force Fennec to stop in Application Administrator of Android (but it's not really practical.

Comment 4

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Attachment: Quick fix v1

There's a pretty easy fix for this. Whenever a textbox is touched/clicked, nsIWidget::ResetInputState() is called. We can show the keyboard there.

ResetInputState isn't designed for this purpose though and it's called from a bunch of places, but for an easy fix this one's probably the simplest. I didn't see any problems from simple testing.

The patch is Android-only right now.

Comment 6

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Fixed by bug 576065

Comment 7

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

verified FIXED on build:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; U; Linux armv71; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100805 Namoroka/4.0b3pre Fennec/2.0a1pre