100742 - Editing nonexistant local file fails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Steps:
1. File>Open [Address]
2. Enter a path to a file that doesn't exist
3. Select open in composer
4. click open.

Expected, as seen using
> notepad nonexistantfile
Notepad

Cannot find the fi.txt file.
Do you want to create a new file?
Yes No

Win98 Composer
HTML Editor opens w/ uneditable view. Various errors can be triggered while
trying to 'use' the editor. -- No changes are possible...

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIEditorShell.LoadUrl]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://editor/content/editor.js ::
EditorStartup :: line 246"  data: no]
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsIEditorShell.editorDocument]"  nsresult:
"0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://editor/content/editor.js :: SetEditMode :: line 1130"  data: no]
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0xc1f30001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED) [nsIEditorShell.GetTextProperty]" 
nsresult: "0xc1f30001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://editor/content/editor.js :: initFontFaceMenu :: line 721"  data: no]

This is probably related to Bug 93475 however the suggested fix there won't work
here (and the underlying problem which should probably be fixed here so that the
editor will function at all...)
I'm about to file a similar bug for FreeBSD, however the behavior is
significantly different.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->brade

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

timeless--you could fix this bug if you wanted ;-)

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

Is this still a bug?  If so, can you provide more updated debug info? 
(editorShell is now gone)

Comment 4

[timeless]

Error ``GetCurrentEditor() has no properties'' [xs] in file
``chrome://editor/content/editorUtilities.js'', line 825, character 0.
Stopped for error handler.
#0: function GetDocumentUrl() in <chrome://editor/content/editorUtilities.js>
line 825

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420