168885 - Event dialog: while entering category keyboard does not respond

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[Dennis Daniels]

this is a request for enhancement

use case
create a new event
TAB through the event information
get to categories
try to use the key board
some keys do work like P for personal
but B for business won't
arrow keys do work

hope I've been specific enough!

Dennis

Comment 1

[Dennis Daniels]

just tried it with
Mozilla 1.2b

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

running RH 8.0

the selection key does work now but once you've cycled through the options
pressing another key selection does not work... for example press a to select
a1
a2
a3 
and you'll cycle through 'a' selections easy enough but to access 'b' selections
pressing 'b' will not work. you have to use the arrow keys to get out of the
loop and then you'll be able to use the 'b' key to select 'b' items

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

New contact from [e-mail] to [e-mail]
Filter on string OttawaMBA to get rid of these messages. 
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Wm]

reproduced; can't quite work out where the prog is going wrong as the alpha keys
will often work and then get stuck on a letter for a keystroke or so and need
either an arrow key or a different letter to get it going again

suggest low priority minor bug

2004080916-cal + Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803
Firefox/0.9.3

Comment 4

[Esad Hajdarevic]

If you hit the backspace key and press the wanted key again,it will work, something like A[backspace]B[backspace]C etc. It seems that autocompletition for the combobox has wrong logic, it makes incremental search. I.e. typing BU to select Business category instead of hitting B twice.


This behaviour is not Sunbird-specific, it can be reproduced on other Mozilla products as well, i.e.

Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Comment 5

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 6

[Omar Bajraszewski]

I can confirm it with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070118 Calendar/0.6a1

It works sometimes and sometimes not i.e. I press 'i'--> nothing happens but when I press 'i' again category changes to 'ideas'

Comment 7

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12pre) Gecko/2007121501 Calendar/0.8pre with default profile.

Comment 8

[Omar Bajraszewski]

(In reply to comment #6)

> It works sometimes and sometimes not i.e. I press 'i'--> nothing happens but
> when I press 'i' again category changes to 'ideas'

I can still reproduce it- I need sometimes to double press the letter to switch to proper category

Comment 9

[Pete Riley]

This is how many things work in MS Windows.  For example, if you have these categories:

Allday
Appointment
Hello
Hi
Task

you can press H as many times as you want to jump between Hello and Hi, but you have to wait a couple of seconds before you can press a different starting letter (A or T).

You can see the same behavior in RegEdit and other Windows apps, including in the folder and file panes of Windows Explorer.  The only difference is that the Windows apps beep at you if you don't wait long enough, but Lightning doesn't beep.

As Esad said, this is because of the incremental search (e.g. if you have Hello and Hi, you can type hi to go directly to it, instead of pressing h twice).

I don't think it's a bug, but maybe it could be an enhancement request to either stop using incremental search or to make it beep at you if you don't wait long enough.  However I wonder if you have any control over this if the behavior is part of the Mozilla Core code and/or Windows.

Incremental search is very useful for things like RegEdit and Windows Explorer because they have such long lists of items, but IMO it's bad for short lists like categories (I only have seven categories).  It's annoying to have to wait until I can type a different starting letter.

Comment 10

[Markus Adrario [:Taraman]]

This looks like normal behaviour on windows and it is more likely a Toolkit bug.

Should we keep this one open?

Comment 11

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Lets close it, I agree