12219 - [PP] Win32 - Keyboard use of menus is failing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 14574

(Core :: XUL, defect, P4)

Description

[cpratt]

Build ID: 1999082008
Platform: Windows NT (not applicable to Mac OS, not reproducible on Linux)

To reproduce:
- Launch apprunner
- Click once on a menu to drop it down
- Leave the cursor there
- Press the right arrow key to select a submenu or move to the next menu to
right
- Press it again if necessary

Results: Sooner or later, the active menu returns to the menu you originally
dropped down using the pointing device. For example, if you click on Edit, and
press the right arrow key, the View menu displays briefly before it disappears
and is replaced by the Edit window.

Expected result: Once you're using the keyboard to navigate the windows, the
pointing device &c. should be ignored.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

I think failing is too strong a word here, even native menus will still respond
to the mouse after you use the keyboard, although they don't appear to drop the
submenus on a timeout.  Is there even a spec for the desired behavior?
assigning to saari as p4 for m15, & cc'ing german

Comment 2

[cpratt]

I agree that 'failing' is not exactly the right word. The problem is that if you
use the mouse to drop down a menu, using the keyboard to navigate through the
menus doesn't work as expected. I believe - but am not sure - that there may
also be a problem if you dropped down the menu using the keyboard, but forgot
that you had the cursor 'parked' up there over the menus.

For those of us who use the keyboard and not the mouse in Windows, this is a
hefty annoyance - but I'm also OK with M15. Not everyone uses the keyboard.

Comment 3

[Paul MacQuiddy]

dividing up phillips bugs, he no longer works here

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

taking popup/menu bugs. I hate my life.

keyboards are for wimps.

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14574 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verifying.