123102 - when you activate the 'Advanced Search', and then dismiss it, pulling up Edit/Preferences also reactivates the Advanced Search screen.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Niranjani Raya]

Problem:  when you activate the 'Advanced Search', and then dismiss it, pulling
up Edit/Preferences also reactivates the Advanced Search screen.

Steps to reproduce
Pull up your email
Click on the Advanced... button above the listing of the contents of your mail
folder
Dismiss the Advanced Search window by hitting the 'X' in the upper right hand corner
Select Edit/Preferences from the menu BY KEYBOARD --> alt-E, Up Arrow, ENTER

Result:  
both the Advanced Search screen comes up, as well as the Preferences screen
ahead of it

Suspected cause:
the ENTER key on the Preferences menu element is being caught, which activates
the Edit Preferences screen, but that ENTER keypress may also be passed to the
Advanced Search button

Build tested:  20020128

Comment 1

[timeless]

please file mail bugs in the mailnews product.

Comment 2

[laurel]

nominating to see what evaluation we get for fixing in next release. It's a
weird one, and with the increase focus on keyboard usage, I hate to have a
window you just closed pop back up.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I just tried this and couldn't replicate it on Linux, partially because
Advanced... isn't there anymore. I also tried it with things like highlighting a
folder that has sub folders (it collapses/expands on enter) or a message and it
didn't appear on those either.

Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041124

Someone want to try this on Windows NT with a current build as it may already be
fixed by now? Then we can close another bug down if it is.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Stephen, I think this is now works for me, can you give it a try and let us know
please?

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Instead of the Advanced button which no longer exists, I used Tools | Search
Messages, both by its accesskey and its accelerator, then I launched Edit |
Preferences by using ALT-E, arrow keys and then ENTER.

Worksforme with build Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050318 on Windows XP.