196955 - Mail panes flash grey before repainting when resizing mail

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect)

Description

[Lewis Jardine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030310
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030310

When resizing the mail panes ('|-' layout), the top and bottom right panes flash
grey for about a frame before being drawn. This only seems to happen if the pane
is being drawn a different size than it's been drawn before. This doesn't happen
all the time, but once it starts, it continues to happen after closing and
reopening mail window.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
(Not 100% positive on these)

1. Start mozilla
2. Open mail
3. Select a message, and resize panes while message is loading

Actual Results:  
Panes flash grey for a frame, before being drawn normally. Occasionally two
copies of separator bar can be seen on screen at once

Expected Results:  
Panes are drawn cleanly - resizing is smooth, and multiple copies are not drawn.

Happens with 1.3 second release candidate
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2003-03-10-17-1.3/mozilla-win32-talkback.zip)

Don't see this bug in 1.2

Comment 1

[Lewis Jardine]

Seems similar to bug 196308, but doesn't seem to have such a drastic effect.
I see a similar effect when un-maximising and resizing the browser window.

Comment 2

[Bharat]

WFM with Moz 1.7.3. Reporter do you still see this problem with the latest
nightly, or even 1.7.3? If not, this bug has probably been fixed and can be
closed. Thanks.

Comment 3

[Lewis Jardine]

I can still reproduce this in 1.7.2 . Method used:

Start mailnews
Grasp separator between message list and preview pane 

M  | Message 
a  |  List
i  | 
l  |----- 
b  |   ^
o  |   \____this one
x  |
e  | Preview 
s  |  Pane


Wiggle up and down vigourously.
Preview pane does not appear to flash gray, but message list does.

Will confirm with the latest nightly once it finishes downloading.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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