Closed Bug 18460 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

No caret in body portion of new message window

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86
Other
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jud, Assigned: mozeditor)

Details

(Whiteboard: fixed?) 

When I goto edit a new email, there is no cursor indicating focus in the text
area *until* I start typing. There's no way for me to know the text area has focus.
Assignee: mscott → ducarroz
over to the compose guru Jean-Francois. This is most likely a problem with
 the editor widget that is embedded in the compose window if I had to guess.
So you may end up bumping it over to one of them.
Assignee: ducarroz → buster
seems to be a Ender widget problem.
Assignee: buster → jfrancis
Target Milestone: M14
reassigning this to jfrancis for review and setting to m14
QA Contact: lchiang → laurel
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
accepting bug.  this may not be an editor problem, but i don't know for sure yet.
Summary: No cursor in body portion of new message window → No caret in body portion of new message window
Changing summary from "cursor" to "caret"
moving to m16
Target Milestone: M14 → M16
Laurel--is this still a problem?  I see a caret blinking in the "to" field of 
mail compose with my build from today.

(Laurel is out today so I'm trying this)

There is still a problem in this morning's builds:

Win32:
new msg - html - caret is in the To: field - correct
new msg - plain text - caret is in the To: field - correct
reply - html - caret is in the msg body - correct
reply - plain txt - caret is NOT in the msg body until you start typing - 
incorrect

Linux:
new msg - html - caret is in the To: field - correct
new msg - plain text - caret is in the To: field - correct
reply - html - caret is NOT in the msg body until you start typing - incorrect
reply - plain txt - caret is NOT in the msg body until you start typing - 
incorrect

I haven't tried Mac yet.

Kathy - you may wish to try the combinations above to see the problem.
tested today on my mac and I couldn't reproduce with any of the scenarios above
Whiteboard: fixed?
fixed?
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Reply for all platforms, plain text and html all get a blinking caret in the
body... OK.  (if your machine is slow you have to give it time to appear).
New messages, plain text and html show caret in body after tabbing or Enter from
subject line.
So, the body portion is okay.
However there is still a problem with initial cursor/caret placement for new
message compose with NT 4.0.  
I will mark this bug (since it was body oriented) verified.
I will research for an existing bug for the New Message To: placement or open
one for Win32.

All this verified using:
2000-04-24-17 m16 commercial build linus rh6.0
2000-04-24-17 m16 commercial build mac OS 9.0
2000-04-21-09 m16 commercial build NT 4.0
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
To: focus problem for win32 logged as bug #37117
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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