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Bug 131728
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Top of Help window is under the menu bar (doesn't resize if larger than screen)
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(Core :: XUL, defect)
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)
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I can't close Mozilla Help without closing Mozilla since when the Help
window opens the toolbar (Print button) and any buttons to close the
window are hidden under the Mac OS X menu bar. I am using 800x600
screen resolution.
WorksForMe using FizzillaCFM/2002041712 (RC1). The Help window opens entirely
within the screen boundaries.
Joel, can you still reproduce this problem using a current build?
I'm seeing this bug too, on maybe half my attempts to open Mozilla Help in
800x600. Still happening with yesterday's builds, both trunk and 1.0.0 branch.
(Screenshot coming.)
I'd guess it also happens on other platforms, but doesn't get noticed because
only on OS X do you *need* the title bar to grab, move or resize the window.
A workaround is to change to 1024x768 and back. But apart from that, as Joel
says, there is no other way out than to quit Mozilla. When Help is the only open
window, you can't even open another from the menus.
I'd suggest upping the severity, as I imagine 1.0 will attract quite a few
newcomers who will *need* a functional help system.
One way to pretty reliably reproduce this bug (100% success this morning) is
to:
1. Set resolution to 800x600;
launch Mozilla; choose Help > Help Contents;
2. Change resolution to 1024x768;
Resize the Help window to be very tall and thin;
Quit Mozilla;
3. Repeat step 1;
(Help now opens with its title bar off screen.)
A contrived procedure admittedly, but the point is that
One way to pretty reliably reproduce this bug (100% success this morning) is
to:
1. Set resolution to 800x600;
Launch Mozilla;
Choose Help > Help Contents;
2. Change resolution to 1024x768;
Resize the Help window to be very tall and thin;
Quit Mozilla;
3. Repeat step 1: Help now opens out of range.
(A contrived procedure admittedly, but the point is that no window should ever
open with its title bar off screen.)
(Sorry for the repeat comment - there is, obviously, a keyboard shortcut for
"submit" that I wasn't aware of.)
Confirmed, though I didn't have to relaunch Mozilla. Simply decreasing
resolution to 800 by 600, launching Mozilla, then spawning Help was enough to
create a window too large for the scren.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
toolkit
Assignee: oeschger → jaggernaut
Component: Help → XP Toolkit/Widgets
QA Contact: tpreston → jrgm
Summary: Top of Help window is under the menu bar → Top of Help window is under the menu bar (doesn't resize if larger than screen)
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: jag → nobody
Comment 9•15 years ago
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still see this?
Comment 10•15 years ago
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I've tried this with a seamonkey trunk build a couple of times now. First, I doubt that this was/is restricted to the help window.
But I think we can close this as wfm. While it's certainly possible to open a window larger than the screen if you play with the screen resolution, it looks like the titlebar newer spawns outside/under the menubar. That is, it seems impossible to make a window resize "upwards" under the menubar.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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