15881 - Account set up dialogs repaint several times when next button is clicked

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[saari (gone)]

Turn on paint flashing.
Set up a mail account. For each dialog in the set up click next button. You'll
see the entire dialog and the enclosed text widgets repaint 3 or 4 times before
going to the next screen.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

hrm... all we're doing when you click next is:
1) retrieving data from the form widgets
2) loading a new image in the IFRAME

it's pure JS.. if this is causing reflows or repaints, it's a toolkit or layout
bug....
 Reassigning to trudelle...
staying on the CC list so that I can continue to answer questions about the
dialog.
Adding the paint weenies to the CC list.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

reassigning to rickg; Rick, I'm tossing this to you because brendan said
your team would be tackling the excess repaint bugs for porkjockeys.

Comment 3

[rickg]

Kevin -- please put this on your radar.

Comment 4

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

It no longer paints 3 or 4 times before going to the next page on WIN32. The
paint porkjockey tasks to prevent unnecessary reflows has fixed it. (The box
layout code was incorrectly causing a repaint for each text field.)

It now paints once for the button down and once when the button is released. The
paint of the depressed button paints too much area (i.e the whole page is
painted rather than just the button.) but that will be fixed when incremental
painting is completed.

Comment 5

[fenella]

Linux (2000-01-21-08 M13)
Win32 (2000-01-21-09 M13)
Mac (2000-01-21-08 M13)
Using the scenario as described,  Account set up dialogs repaint only once  when
next button is clicked