Closed Bug 135528 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Clicking on a Combobox sends a modal dialog behind its parent window.

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla1.0

People

(Reporter: kinmoz, Assigned: danm.moz)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [adt1])

If you pulldown the menu of a combobox (select) in a modal dialog, the dialog is placed behind it's parent window, after the menu displays itself. If the dialog is directly over the parent window, this gives the appearance that the dialog disappeared. I'm seeing this in my Win32 Trunk debug build from today, but I think it's been a problem for at least a couple of days. Some examples of this problem can be seen in Composer by bringing up the dialogs from these menu items: Edit -> Check Spelling Insert -> Link Insert -> Table
Keywords: mozilla1.0, nsbeta1, regression
I can't reproduce this on win2k with either this morning's commercial build or with my own trunk cvs build, for any of Insert->Link, Insert->Table, Edit->Check Spelling (or in the Fill Form dialog of wallet which was mentioned in another bug). Tested with classic and modern skins. But, obviously it's happening to kin (and the wallet bug reporter). So what's the missing piece of config info.
I was seeing this problem in builds during the past 2 days, but I don't in my debug build today.
another example is in Publish tab for publishing, pulling down a sitename causes this problem as well.. Charley and I saw this yesterday.
*** Bug 135519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The Mail compose window is affected by this too. This is bad regression and very annoying to have the Compose window go to the back as soon as you start typing in the addressing pane. Sometimes it will have added an address that you didn't want just because you clicked at the time the autocomplete list was coming up. Marking 135195 as dup of this and adding putterman & gayatri to cc list.
*** Bug 135195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marking nsbeta1+ and adt1 on behalf of the ADT. I'm about to mark a couple of mail bugs as dups of this as well.
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1+
Whiteboard: [adt1]
*** Bug 135047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 134968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Severity: normal → major
*** Bug 135742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
any ETA on this? I'm starting to see a lot of dups.
marking mozilla1.0+. We really need to get this for 1.0 and if the fix is large then we need to get it into RC1 (next week).
Keywords: mozilla1.0 → mozilla1.0+
*** Bug 135556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 135652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can't reproduce this on my win32 (win2k) system (kin and I don't know why my system would be unaffected while others are). Can someone who can reproduce this bug take the time to go back back through prior builds and figure out when this bug began to appear. It would go a long way towards getting this bug resolved quickly if we can determine which checkin(s) resulted in this bug.
John, for my duped bug, bug 135047, I saw this problem only in Mail/Newsgroup Account settings pref panel with any combo box(drop down menu list). And even then only on 98 or Win NT 4.0. Worked fine on 2k for me. I regressed back and for my paticular bug using commercial builds: 2002-03-28-10-trunk/ Thu Mar 28 11:31:00 2002 was Ok 2002-03-29-18-trunk/ Fri Mar 29 20:09:00 2002 was when I saw my problem I didn't try the 2002-03-28-06-trunk/ due to the numerous problems with that build. I installed the 2002-03-29-18-trunk on win 2k and I don't see my problem But on NT 4.0, i do. Hope this helps.
esther will go through her scenario in comment 5 to find the build date that this started with. She tells me that putterman cannot see this problem on his system either. It is strange.
Let's look at checkins from around 3-28 to 3-29 to see if anything in this particular area was checked in and which bug it was for. That may help in determining the fix needed to get this high profile bug addressed.
I just got duped to this by the mail filter dialog. Adding a new mail filter and clicking on anyof the combo boxes causes this behavior where the rest of the box disappears.
confirmed for mail compose window: this was not broke with the 2002032810 couldn't test it with 2002032906 build, couldn't open mail folders broke with with the 2002032918 build.
doing a cvs query for the timeframes, hewitt looks like a good possibility... hewitt--should this be your bug?
I've put two builds at http://jrgm.mcom.com/temp/ as 'win32-brand-X.zip' and 'win32-brand-Y.zip' which differ by one checkin. Can people who have systems that reproduce this bug download them and see if they have different behaviour w.r.t this bug. Sorry #1: that is an internal link and I don't have a place to make those publicly available because ... Sorry #2: those are MOZ_PROFILE builds, so they are about 117MB each in uncompressed size :-/.
For my particular problem (bug 135047) testing on NT 4.0: win32-brand-X.zip - still see the problem win32-brand-Y.zip - problem is gone. works as expected
*** Bug 134855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Okay, so 'brand-X' is with rev 3.409 of widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp in the tree, and 'brand-Y' is with it reverted. -> danm see also bug 134317
Assignee: jaggernaut → danm
Note that right-clicking to bring out a context menu (on textfields for example) also sends it behind the parent window. (Bookmark properties demonstrate this behaviour). So the summary needs some updating.
*** Bug 135650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 135649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 135093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The "Open Web Location" window (CTRL+SHIFT+L) is affected as well.
*** Bug 136147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: Clicking on a Combobox sends a modal dialog behind it's parent window. → Clicking on a Combobox sends a modal dialog behind its parent window.
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
can't ship RC1 with this.
Blocks: 134771
Blocks: 136384
This bug was most likely caused by the check in to fix: bug 120155 - See attachment 75659 [details] [diff] [review].
backed out fix for bug 120155. this will go away now.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
*** Bug 136547 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding branch resolution keyword. 04/09/2002 21:36danm%netscape.com mozilla/ widget/ src/ windows/ nsWindow.cpp 3.410.2.2 MOZILLA_1_0_0_BRANCH 3/2
Keywords: fixed1.0.0
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