189143 - Setting Alarm sound/alert box preferences not working

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030112
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030112

It appears that the Calendar preferences for alarms are not actually being set.
 If you go into the calendar preferences and choose to have an alarm sound and
an alart box displayed, the preferences are not being saved.  As a result alarms
are not occuring.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Edit - Preferences
2.Go to Calendar
3. Go the the Alarm branch
4. Check the boxes for "Play a Sound" and/or "Show an alarm box"
5. Click "ok"

Actual Results:  
If you go back and check the preferences "Play a Sound" and "Show an alarm box"
are NOT checked.  Event alarms do not play.

Expected Results:  
If you go back and check the preferences the two boxed should be checked and
scheduled event alarms should sound/display.

Comment 1

[Brian]

Sorry, it looks like my Calendar build wasn't included.  I'm using "Mozilla
Calendar 2003011316-cal"

Comment 2

[bhs]

I am experiencing exact same problem. In addition to that, the field "Default
address to send alarms to" won't be saved if an email address is provided.

Comment 3

[Brian]

Here is a work around for this bug.  Edit your prefs.js file and change the
following lines: 

user_pref("calendar.alarms.emailaddress", "");
user_pref("calendar.alarms.playsound", false);
user_pref("calendar.alarms.show", false);

in my file these were lines 19, 20, and 21.  Under windows XP this file is
located here C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Default\z70z31fc.slt\prefs.js

If you manually edit the prefs.js file so that the lines read

user_pref("calendar.alarms.emailaddress", "[e-mail]");
user_pref("calendar.alarms.playsound", true);
user_pref("calendar.alarms.show", true);

alarm noticifations will work again.

Hope this helps those who are trying to move to Mozilla Calendar.

Comment 4

[Scott Kester]

I am seeing this as well, marking as NEW. (Linux for me, so OS->ALL)
calendar 2003011316-cal

Comment 5

[Mike Potter]

Any JS errors in the console?

Comment 6

[Mike Potter]

Never mind, simple fix.
Its in CVS now, I'll make a new build this afternoon.

Comment 7

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!