137087 - When changing window focus mozilla sometimes forgets form focus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[P Wagland]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020411
BuildID:    2002041108

When you call focus() on a text input field, it works, but if you then change
the focus away from the browser window and then come back to it, you will not be
able to enter data into the field, without first selecting it again for input.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.   Load the attached test page! (next entry :-)
2. Type some stuff into the field to ensure that it has focus. This field should
have focus as soon as the page is loaded.
3. Switch to another window, or in some way cause this broswer window to lose
input focus.
4. Return the system focus to this browser window.
5. Try to type in the field. This fails.
6. Press the <TAB> key, or use the mouse to select the field, and you can type
again.


This will only work when the page is first loaded, if you manually select the
field (either with the TAB key or the mouse) before moving the system focus out
of the browser window then the field will regain focus as expected. Also, the
field looks like it has focus (The I pointer is active and blinking) but you
cannot enter any data into the field until it is manually selected.

Comment 1

[P Wagland]

Attachment: Test case and description to esaily see the problem

Comment 2

[P Wagland]

Damn. Forgot to mention....

This is similar to bug 96689, but that seems to be a more general case of this
bug, and seems to already be (partly) resolved, which is why I created this bug.

Bug 96689 can probably now be marked closed, if this one takes its place.

Comment 3

[P Wagland]

Well, despite having two bugs filed against this problem, neither of them was
updated, but the problem appears to of have been fixed anyway! Yay! :-)

WFM (Linux Build 2002041921)