164168 - Can't scroll with mouse wheel when window doesn't have focus

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jey Kottalam]

In linux, even when Mozilla does not have focus I can scroll the window by
placing my cursor over the Mozilla window and scrolling the mouse wheel. IE does
the same under Windows, but Mozilla does not.

Tested with Mozilla 1.0.

Comment 1

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Jay:
this works for me with 1.7b on WinXP.
Could you please test again?
This might depend on the mouse driver...

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This works on w2k current nightly builds, both FF and suite. Gateway (logitech)
corded mouse. M-UR58 logitech driver 10/22/2001 9.42.0.0

However, it is NOT working on anXP-pro machine, neither FF nor suite. Nor does
it work for MS applications, eg word and IE. gateway (logitech) cordless mouse
MR-0350T  microsoft driver 7/1/2001 5.1.2600.0

So why the difference?
w2k vs. XP?
ms-windows option?
mouse driver?


(I can't find the dup that timeless suggests.)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

1. open web page
2. open and focus a mail message in a window that leaves part of web page exposed.
3. mouse over web page
4. use mouse wheel

expected results: web pages scrolls
actual results: pages doesn't scroll (in XP, but it does in w2k)

reproduceable: always

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 301947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

was timless thinking of bug 127191 or bug 87156 when setting DUPME?

(both Andreas and reporter, Jey, are gone)

Comment 7

[Andreas Kunz]

Who says I'm gone??

Comment 8

[Andreas Kunz]

WinXP pro, Logitech Mx700, Logitech Mouseware 9.70:
Mozilla behaves like IE. With the steps from comment #4 the result is: web page scrolls and browser window is brought to front.

The bugs mentioned in comment #6 sound different because they are referring to certain elements on the web page that might or might not be focused or below the mouse pointer.

Comment 9

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

The latest windows os's don't support this behavior. Just playing around with a few apps, nothing supports this. I believe this is by design as mouse messages should only go to the foreground window. I'm going to mark this ancient bug as 'wont fix' since the feature requested appears to be obsolete on windows.