15557 - Edit box gaining focus causes an extend selection

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[Yossi Oren]

1. Take an edit box with some text in it (say this one).
2. Click somewhere near the beginning of the text.
3. Click on another text box or window (basically the textbox should lose
focus).
4. Start dragging near the end of the text in the original edit box.

What happens is that the selection is extended from the old cursor position.
What SHOULD happen is a NEW drag-selection from the current position.

This is very apparent since there's no threshold on this operation -
as soon as the mouse drags one pixel you get this huge selection.  This makes
it happen even if you try to just click in the window.

Comment 1

[Eli Goldberg]

Good catch! For future reference, please check the Bug Writing Guidelines (http:/
/www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html), specifically, it helps to
include the build date.

Mike, I can reproduce this on Win32 & Linux, but not on Mac OS (using M10
candidate builds).

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

setting to M15, this can wait until after beta push

Comment 3

[mjudge]

this seems fixed to me please verify.

Comment 4

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified fixed using 2000021008 builds on Mac OS 8.6 & RH Linux 6.0/GNOME.
                                                                             
[e-mail], would you also like to give this a whirl to be sure it's 
fully fixed?

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Eli Goldberg]

Doh, make that using NT 4.0 SP5 & RH Linux 6.0/GNOME. (Never was a problem on Mac 
OS.)

Comment 6

[Yossi Oren]

Okie doo.  Verified on Windows 2K using build 2000020608.
The bug doesn't happen when I click in from other Moz windows, nor from other
apps.

Happy Hunting.

Comment 7

[Eli Goldberg]

Thanks!