193594 - changing From field (identity) during mail composition displays fake caret in body text while focus stays in From field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Vaclav Dvorak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

This is a spinoff from bug 147077.

In the mail composition window, changing the From field places a caret in the
message body editor, but focus really stays in the From field (you can't write
in the body).

Probably cross-platform, but leaving as PC/Win98 until someone confirms elsewhere.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Compose window (Ctrl+M)
2. Click on your email address (the From field) to display a drop-down menu and
select a different one.

Actual Results:  
A blinking caret is displayed at the end of the message body, after the
(possibly changed) signature, but focus really stays in From.

Expected Results:  
No caret in message body editor.

Comment 1

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Reproduced with 2003030608-trunk/Linux.

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

fyi: This problem also existed in Netscape 7.02.

Comment 3

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Seems solved as in Mozilla 1.4b

Comment 4

[Vaclav Dvorak]

Agreed.