Closed Bug 15526 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Clicking on submenu parent menu item does not work

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13334

People

(Reporter: CodeMachine, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

References

Details

Currently clicking on a submenu, eg "Wallet >" dismisses the menu and
seems to deliver a click to what is underneath.  I would expect it to open the
submenu.

I have tested this on both Linux and Win 98 and would expect this on neither.
The Win build I have here is 1999093012.
Summary: Clicking on submenu header does not work.
Severity: enhancement → normal
Assignee: trudelle → saari
Priority: P3 → P4
Target Milestone: M12
This is timing related, the click dismisses the menu if it is already up. I
couldn't confirm that the object underneath gets the click though.  While trying
to reproduce this, I also managed to get the menus into a state where the
menubar ignored all clicks.  I'll try to reproduce that. reassigning to saari
as p4 for m12.
There's currently a bug where clicking on the personal toolbar loads a "chrome:"
URL into the URL bar.  I reproduced this on the menus and that's what has led me
to believe this.
*** Bug 17115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
mass-moving all m12 bugs to m13
*** Bug 18582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OS: other → Windows NT
Summary: Clicking on submenu header does not work. → [PP] Win32 - Clicking on submenu header does not work.
Marking [PP] - I was not able to reproduce on Linux or Mac using the 19991109xx
builds. matty, can you verify that?
I can reproduce this on Win32 (1999111108) quite easily. Just do your initial
click on a different menu than the one you do the submenu click in --- e.g. click
on "Edit", drag to "View", and then click on "Translate". The menu will be
dismissed.
Yeah I can repro this on Linux, build 1999111208.  It seems that mousedown
toggles and mouseover turns on.  They should both turn on.  So whether the
behaviour occurs depends on whether you beat the mouseover.

I can't see the click-through problem anymore though.
*** Bug 19999 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug #19999 is about the click-through behaviour still occuring.  I'm keeping
these two issues together because they're probably the same problem ...
Click-through is probably Windows only.
Bug #13334 is a related bug on Linux behaviour.
matty, when you pull down a menu and then click on a submenu what do you expect to happen?
Currently, if you beat the mouseover and click before the menu shows up, the menu still shows
up (as it should). If you don't beat the mouseover, that means you're looking at the submenu
and have now clicked on the name of the submenu and it(the entire menu) dismisses (matching 4.x).
The only thing I can think of is that clicking on a submenu when it is already open could dismiss the
submenu only.
In a nutshell, i'm not clear on what the expected behavior is. If it's to match 4.x, then aside from the
click-through (Bug 19999) we've already got that.
Worst case scenario: the "Mouseclicks can pass through XP menus" would
be extremely heinous if it affected greyed items on context menus over
the browser window. Checked this, not a problem.

The "Mouseclicks can pass through XP menus" problem could conceivably
activate arbitrary links on the webpage if the click fell through the
labels for the submenus on the Edit, View, or Bookmarks menus,
so if this is still happening at all, this is a real bug, IMHO.

Unable to replicate, making sure to beat the mouseover.
Tested with: 1999-12-09-08-M12 nightly bianry on Windows NT 4.0sp3
Summary: [PP] Win32 - Clicking on submenu header does not work. → [PP] Win32 - Clicking on submenu parent menu item does not work.
No, the dismissal does not occur on NN4 on Windows or Linux, or in any other app
I've ever seen for that matter.  Clicking on a submenu parent menu item should
turn on the submenu regardless of whether it is already up, so there is no race
condition.

Are you sure we're talking about the same thing?  Clarified the description a
bit.  Maybe this has been fixed recently on Win?
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets → XPMenus
updated component... i tried this out with 1999121509/winNT, and cannot seem to
repro... is it still a problem for others?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M13 → M15
Still there for build 1999121915/Win98.
It's interesting to compare this with the behaviour of a menu directly off the
menu bar.  Clicking a second time on the menubar item will dismiss the menu on
Win and XP (but not NC4 Linux or GTK), but that's OK because there is no popup
on mouseover that needs to be beaten.

Regarding the comment of just dismissing the submenu, I think this would be OK
since you don't have to traverse the entire hierachy again, and your mouse is
already where it needs to be to reopen the submenu if necessary, but I still
would prefer it not dismiss, since I see no purpose in dismissing it (if you
want to choose something else then just do so).
Assignee: saari → pinkerton
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
taking popup/menu bugs.
QA Contact: claudius → sairuh
*** Bug 16876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 23101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: [PP] Win32 - Clicking on submenu parent menu item does not work. → Clicking on submenu parent menu item does not work
summary: removed pltf parity, since this occurs on linux as well (whose bug[s]
have just been dup'd of this one :-).
Bug #13334 is about Linux behaviour (which doesn't have the click-thru part),
but I guess it's not platform parity if the main part happens everywhere.
BULK MOVE: Changing component from XP Menus to XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus.  XP 
Menus component will be deleted.
Component: XPMenus → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
bulk accepting xpmenu/popup bugs. sigh.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
*** Bug 25400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Adding myself to the CC list


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13334 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
yeah, this certainly appears to be a dup of 13334...
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: bugzilla → xptoolkit.widgets
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