141186 - Keyboard input fails after running Java applet

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java-Implemented Plugins, defect)

Description

[Fred Goldstein]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020426
BuildID:    2002042603

Lotus Domino uses a set of java applets to make mail available across the web. 
With this recent version of Mozilla and NPOJI600.dll dated 11/26/01 in the
plugins directory, the applet mostly works.  But it doesn't always let me assign
keyboard focus to one-line fields like "to:".  After leaving Domino (say, going
to bugzilla!), the keyboard still can't enter data into fields like "search". 
However, if I open the Java Console and do a garbage collection (g), it works
again.  (This is with Win98 SE.)

I don't think this is the same problem as 133223, which might be hitting me on a
different machine.  On that machine, running Win98 FE, after running a java
applet (which often fails), Mozilla loses its ability to fill in its own window.
 Buttons show up when you mouse-over and stay up, but the main rendering never
happens (transparent, not blank).  This requires a Windows reboot to fix.  I'd
enter this as a separate bug but it sounds too dupe-ish.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load java applet from web site (notably a Domino mail server)
2.Try to input text into one-line field (multiline boxes seem to work)
3.

Actual Results:  You can type but nothing shows up.  Yet if you click on a
selector field where the typed letter moves the selector, it works, so clearly
the keyboard is focused; it just won't enter text reliably.

Expected Results:  Text entered normally

Can't give you the Domino url because it's internal-only (firewalled, intranet
domain).

Comment 1

[Drew D. Saur]

This also happens on the Mac; see http://www.asrt.org/ for example.

Using Mac OS X 10.2.5 and 1.4 alpha.

Comment 2

[Stewart Gordon]

Related to bug 120921?

Comment 3

[Travis Chase]

I have experienced this in the past, but not for an extreamly long time. Is this
still a problem for you reporter?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce on current builds with jre 1.4.2 and 1.5 beta. 

Comment 5

[Stewart Gordon]

I'd forgotten about this one ... but filed bug 247140 the other day.  But
looking at this one again, they appear to be separate issues.