100677 - Modal windows are not debuggable

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Venkman JS Debugger, defect, P3)

Description

[Colin Phillips]

Modal windows are not debuggable because of the modality of the window being
debugged.  The debugger does in fact halt at the breakpoint, however, the only
way to exit from the modal window is by closing (or cancelling the window) since
no operations are allowed.

I don't have a debug build (unfortunately), so you'll have to wait for a stack
trace.

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

At some point, the debugger should disable the target window (if there is one),
to keep it from generating new events while being debugged.  This bug should be
taken into account when that happens.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I just ran into this one.  I was unable to debug the cookie viewer.  There was
no way to continue from the breakpoint, and I had to close the cookie viewer,
which eventually led to the crash described in bug 110387.  FWIW, my talkback ID
is TB1613636Y

Comment 3

[Robert Ginda]

This one scares me.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Moving Netscape owned 0.9.9 and 1.0 bugs that don't have an nsbeta1, nsbeta1+,
topembed, topembed+, Mozilla0.9.9+ or Mozilla1.0+ keyword.  Please send any
questions or feedback about this to [e-mail].  You can search for
"Moving bugs not scheduled for a project" to quickly delete this bugmail.

Comment 5

[Robert Ginda]

Attachment: patch

Here's the fix.  This should work immediatley on all platforms except Linux. 
Linux depends on bug 129591.

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

I checked the patch in, linux users will have to watch bug 129591.

Comment 7

[Robert Ginda]

if bug 129591 get's fixed for 1.0, this will too.  It doesn't look like 129591
is going to make it, so speak up now if you care.

Comment 8

[Robert Ginda]

fixed by check-in for bug 129591