191824 - Allow all day for default event length

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304919

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Ruppel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030202

The majority of my events in calandar are all-day affairs (ie: rent due today).
 I think it should be possible to make this the default event length.  Right now
the options in preferences does not allow this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to edit>preferences>calendar

Actual Results:  
default event length box only allows minutes input

Expected Results:  
somehow all day should be allowed.  it might not be a bad idea to stick a full
blown time-chooser widget in there.

Comment 1

[Mike Potter]

This is fixed in the latest XPIs.
If you make a new event all day, the next time you make a new event, it will be
an all day event.
This was done a little while ago.

Comment 2

[Ben Ruppel]

well, while it is true that there is a way to make all day the default,
shouldn't this be reflected in the preferences?

Comment 3

[Ben Ruppel]

This seems to be broken in the June 22 2004 build for thunderbird.  Objections
to me reopening?

Comment 4

[Ben Ruppel]

I've got some time off for the holidays.  Would there be an objection to me
adding a little switch so that if the input eventlength = 0 or -1, calendar uses
"all day"?  Right now if I put in -1 for my event length, the event dialog
accepts an event that ends before it starts.  I'm not a pro mozilla programmer
but I think I could handle this if I could find the right part of code.

Comment 5

[Sam]

When I set a new event to "all day event," it does not default to "all day event" for the next event.  I have to manually set it to "all day event" every time, which is a pain.  I wish there was a way to set "all day event" to default.

Comment 6

[Mike Arena]

Agreed. I also voted for this enhancement but it lies dormant.

Comment 7

[Sam]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is fixed in the latest XPIs.
> If you make a new event all day, the next time you make a new event, it will be
> an all day event.
> This was done a little while ago.

I wish this was the case, but it is not true of Sunbird 0.8