Closed Bug 172674 Opened 22 years ago Closed 19 years ago

text element key event coordinates are not set

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: rsh, Assigned: joki)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

Key events targeted at text elements don't get their Javascript coordinate
properties (x, y,pageX, pageY, screenX, screenY) set.  Values reported are
undefined or 0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load test page.  It tests only for the KEYPRESS event handled at window, but
can be modified to test for KEYUP, KEYDOWN, and for activation at target. 
2. Type keys at the textbox and textarea. 
3. Each KEYPRESS event is caught by a window-level onkeypress handler which
displays in the window status area a handler activation counter, eventObj.which,
eventObj.x , eventObj.y and eventObj.pageX, eventObj.pageY.

Actual Results:  
KEYDOWN:  MOZ: handler not activated    NN4.79: correct coords
KEYPRESS: MOZ: coords not set           NN4.79: correct coords
KEYUP:    MOZ: coords not set           NN4.79: correct coords

MOZ reports x = y = undefined; pageX = pageY = (also screenX = screenY) = 0.
Same results if handler is activated at target instead of window using
onkeypress="handler(event)". 

This breaks existent pages and significantly restricts key-driven DHTML
interface design.

Expected Results:  
All coords should be set correctly for all key events, regardless of level where
handler is activated.
Note that in the DOM spec screen coordinates are something specific to mouse
events...
Broken keydown on Mac is bug 148130.
I'm seeing the same behavior on WinXP, moz 1.2a.  Setting All/All
OS: Mac System 9.x → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
QA Contact: rakeshmishra → trix
Robert - can you give an example of an existing page which this breaks? I just
tried in IE (6 on Windows), and your testcase doesn't work there.  If IE doesn't
implement this and it's not in the standard, then I'm not sure that anyone is
going to be convinced to implement it.
reporter replied to me by email: (Bob - for future reference, it's better if you
go to the bugzilla web form - the URL is in the bugzilla emails - and post the
comments through that, rather than emailing them...)

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:46:22PM -0600, Robert Hart wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for you attention to this.  Sorry to delay reply, but was out
> of office during the holidays.
>
> It breaks
>
>      http://www.lll.uiuc.edu/hum382/judgeResponse/judgeResponse.html
>
> This page is a fill-in-the blanks ESL exercise which gives error
> feedback in the left margin, vertically positioned to align it with
> the current text element.  It is implemented by a "driver" program
> which reads the visible exercise content as data (in the form of an
> HTML page) and presents it with program-generated blanks.  The driver
> uses the position attributes of the text elements to assure that the
> feedback is positioned at the correct vertical location.  Since it is
> a template program, I, my students, and various others have produced
> a number of data pages that implement various exercises, & I expect
> more to be implemented as time goes on.  They work fine in NN4.7, but
> stopped working with Moz.  They don't work in IE because none of my
> development work supports IE (unless by accident).
>
> Clearly the real issue is not the availability of these attributes,
> but some general mechanism to determine the current screen position
> of any HTML element, including those AUTO positioned; the (apparent)
> lack of this capability is a constant difficulty when trying to build
> interfaces like this.
>
> Bob Hart


I observe that text coordinates for the text are wrong (x=0,y=0,w=0,h=0) for the
text from the "Location" text-box (Edit->Preferences).
This is the cause of gnopernicus bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168746
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
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