103410 - Can't type in addressing pane when Compose window comes up

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Simple MAPI, defect)

Description

[esther]

Using branch build 2001-10-05 on winxp with MAPI on and Netscape 6 the default
app, if I do a Send  from Word97 and give a correct username and password for
one of my mail accounts in the pref I selected, I can't type a name in the To:
field.  I have to do a Send and let it fail due to no recipient, then I have
focus in the addressing pane.  

1. Set Netscape6 as default.
2. Launch Word97 and type text them click Send
3. Give correct user name and password for your email account you want to use.
4. When Compose window opens try to type in a name in the To: field.
Doesn't let you!
5. Do a Send and OK the 2 errors you recieve,
Now you can type in the addressing pane and send successfully.

Comment 1

[esther]

nominating as nsbranch

Comment 2

[lchiang]

I ran into this problem as well.
WinNT 4.0
Word 97 SR-1
HTML compose window

This has to be fixed as it is very visible and a usability issue if the user
can't type in addresses in the compose window when they try to send page from Word.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

it's a requirement to type in the to field? i'm not sure that qualifies as a
stop ship bug....


=)

Lisa/Esther do you get anything in the JS console after you try to get focus on
the to field? Can you tab into the to field or does that not work either? To
look for errors on the JS console go to Tasks / Tools / Java Script Console

Comment 4

[Tiantian Kong]

Trix: Did you see this problem in your testing?

Comment 5

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Hmmmmm ... Don't think you can send a message, unless you can add names in the
addressing pane. I think this is a stop ship. Tiantian?

Comment 6

[Tiantian Kong]

This is in the compose window. MAPI code does not control this behaviour. Can 
someone from mailnews team own this bug? Maybe JF?

Reassign to mscott.

Comment 7

[esther]

Actually, more testing with today's build shows that if you shift+tab back 2
times to get focus (with no cursor) in the addressing field allows you to type.
 Also, using spell check and closing gives focus in addressing field.  We had a
previous bug regarding focus in the addressing pane sometimes required user to
place focus in body first then to addressing field, but I believe that was
fixed.  I don't have focus problems in the compose window with New Msg, Reply or
Forward.  I only have problems when the Compose window comes up via MAPI. 

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

I can't reproduce this behavior on my machine here at work. Focus is set
correctly on the to field when it comes up. 

JF, can you take a look at this?

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

turns out the browser window that also gets started steals focus away from the
compose window. So you have to click back in the To field of the compose window
to type something in it.

This bug is going to go away when I check in my fix for not bringing up a
browser window when invoking simple mapi. 

I'll mark this bug as being blocked by 102821. Then when that fix is checked in,
I'll mark this as fixed too.

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

this should be working in tomorrow's builds now. 

Comment 11

[Trix Supremo]

verified on 2001-10-12-05-0.9.4 branch build

adding vtrunk keyword for trunk verification