189091 - save and publish suspend composer when help window is open, but resume when I close the help window.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Richard Smaby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I had the help window open while working in composer.  I tried to publish my page.  
It happened to be empty (I was just testing). The composer window then refused
to respond to any commands, until I closed the help window.  The same happens
with save.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Mozilla.
2. Select Composer from the Window menu.
3. Select Help>Help Contents from the Help menu.
4. Select Save or Publish from the File menu.


Actual Results:  
5. Composer refuses to respond.
6. Close Help Contents window.
7. Composer resumes the save or publishing process.

Expected Results:  
Allowed the Help Contents window to stay open, while completing the save or
publish process.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->help
did this work in mozilla 1.0 or netscape 7?  has it ever worked?
Can you save from the browser window while the help window is up?

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

Here are some comments from a private e-mail Richard Smaby sent me:
>No problem in Netscape 7.0's composer.  Of course, Netscape 7.0 uses a 
>different help scheme.  It uses the browser to load help, while Mozilla 
>has local help.
>
>I do not have Mozilla 1.0.
>
>No problem saving a page in the Mozilla browser with help open.

Ian--if this isn't a bug in the help system, please reassign to Editor:Composer.

Comment 3

[Brant Gurganus]

It probably has to do with the modality of the Help dialog.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

remove editorbase- since this isn't a core issue
Is this a duplicate bug?

Comment 5

[R.J. Keller]

mass reassign of all of Ian Oeschger's bugs to me (R.J. Keller).

Comment 6

[R.J. Keller]

Daniel, can you reproduce this? I don't see this on Mandrake Linux 9.1 running
Mozilla 1.4 (got a newer build compiling as I type).

Comment 7

[Daniel Wang]

Confirming. I can reproduce this bug on win98SE

  1. In Composer, select Help>Help Contents from the Help menu.
  2. Select Publish from the File menu.

Result:
  Don't see the Publish dialog
  (Acutally, it's there but it's not in front. You have
  to focus Help, then refocus Composer from the taskbar
  for it to come to foreground).

Comment 8

[R.J. Keller]

That's because of help's alwaysRaised, though. You can still publish when help
is open (which is what this bug is about).

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

I turned off Help modality some time ago, so that might have fixed this.

Comment 10

[R.J. Keller]

FIXED.

Looks done to me. It appears to work. Reopen if anyone can reproduce this (where
it doesn't publish. You have to actually try and publish something).

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

Neil, I checked the bonsai log for the last one month and don't find the change.
Help is still model to me. Was this checked into the trunk or a branch?
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=MozillaTinderboxAll&branch=&branchtype=match&dir=mozilla%2Fextensions%2Fhelp+mozilla%2Fxpfe%2Fcomponents%2Fprefwindow%2F&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=month&mindate=&maxdate=&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 12

[R.J. Keller]

Help is not modal over here. What steps are you doing to reproduce this, Daniel?

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

See bug 195888.