176511 - SELECT MULTIPLE doesn't work with keyboard and beeps inappropriately

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Mark Mentovai]

When making a selection in a <select multiple="multiple"> list, Chimera beeps
like a banshee when holding Shift or Command to make multiple selections.  When
using Command, the multiple selection isn't made.

To reproduce, visit the Chimera Bugzilla query page at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?product=Chimera and click on "UNCONFIRMED"
the "Status" select box.  Now, hold down the Shift key and press the down-arrow.
 The multiple selection is made appropriately, but Chimera beeps.  It should not
have beeped.  Now, hold down the Command key.  Chimera beeps and the selection
is not changed, but the dotted outline caret moves.  In this case, a multiple
selection should have been made, and nothing should have beeped.

When navigating a non-multiple list box SELECT, such as the "Component" box at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Chimera, Chimera beeps when
Command or Shift are held (good) but is inconsistent in its behavior: holding
Shift changes the selection (then why did it beep?) while holding Command
doesn't, but caret moves.  (Should it?  I think not, but the caret is more of a
Windows thing, and I don't really understand what it's doing in Chimera anyway.)

Mark

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Reporter, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?

Comment 2

[Mark Mentovai]

2002101604

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

Confirmed build 1026 - OS X 10.1.5.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Marking confirmed per comment 3.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The widget code needs a dummy impl of whatever Shift-uparrow maps to.
The patch in bug 164481 may address the underlying cause.

Comment 6

[Mark Mentovai]

WorksForMe, daily 0.7.0+/2003040505.  Shift-UpArrow and Shift-DownArrow now
extend the selection in a <select multiple="multiple"> box.  Command-UpArrow and
Command-DownArrow do not extend the selection, they merely move the caret, but
that should be handled in a separate bug related to form control accessibility.

Mark