161342 - Help pages load as a modal window when launched from modal dialogs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 195888

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[timeless]

it shouldn't be modal.

Comment 1

[robinf]

Agreed. Ian, is this a dupe of bug 136647? 

Comment 2

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

I don't know yet. I am looking into it, but right now I suspect these are two
different (if related) issues.

Comment 3

[robinf]

--->Ian

Comment 4

[Dan M]

The file>publish dialog is modal. A window opened on top of it will itself be
modal, regardless of whether you asked it to be modal. See bug 99284 comment 3.
The "Sigh. I forget why we had to..." comment within is explained at least
partially by bug 15574; see especially bug 15574 comment 4.

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

So can we get around this by searching up the parent ".opener" chain until we
hit the main window and launch help from there? This, of course, should be done
centrally, not just for Composer's "Publish" dialog. Composer has lots of help
items for various dialog; I assume other apps/modules might also?

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

I tested using window.opener in the openHelp()* function I define in
contextHelp.js some time ago, but with some other dialog, and got wonky behavior
by asking the actual opener's parent to open me instead. Weird modality. Since
we are trying to get all the Help script into one area anyway, shouldn't these
kinds of modality and parent choices be getting made in contextHelp.js--and then
made available in a general way?

* the preferred method for opening Help--to import this file and use openHelp()
 http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/search?string=openHelp

Comment 7

[Dan M]

comment 5: for notes on previous attempts to use the .opener chain, see bug 87720.

I'm not sure how much encouragement I want to lay out, but it may be possible to
fix this now. See bug 99284 comment 5. This bug is a duplicate of that one, by
the way. The code change is trivial but it wants a lot of testing.

Comment 8

[Dan M]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195888 ***

Comment 9

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

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