200889 - Corrupt Display Of Server List Pane

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194638

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[jay garcia]

Mozilla 1.4b 2003040504 Windows 98SE

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Mail/News in 3-pane window mode 2-small over 1-large
2. Open news or mail server from list in left (small pane)
3. Open mailbox or news server/group , read mail/article
4. Collapse server, open another one which will expand the enter list again    
  (full pane.
5. Open server, click on group to read

This only started with 1.4a, going back to 1.3 shows normal display.

See http://www.ufaq.org/display.jpg  for result.

Note: Minotaur not on system in case there may be a conflict. This happens with
a Mozilla install on my Notebook where there has never been a Mozilla build before.

Comment 1

[Ed Grochowski]

I started getting this as well as soon as I installed 1.4a release. I am running
on Win2000 so the OS should be changed to windows I think.

On my system, it seems to be related (triggered) to how many newsgroups are in
the left pane. If I have lots, and then select a newsgroup, followed by
highlighting a message, the bottom pane is messed up. 

Comment 2

[jay garcia]

I installed the latest 1.4b nightly on my laptop where Mozilla has never been 
installed. One mail account, one news server (Mozilla) and only 6 groups. 
Problem exists. I can't see how the number of groups is affecting this bug as 
regards the laptop install.

Comment 3

[Ed Grochowski]

On my machine, I have 12 servers defined (2 email, 1 local folders, and the rest
news servers). This symptom does not always occur with every server/newsgroup. 

If I move the default horizontal level of the separator between top and bottom
windows, the behaviour changes (i.e. some newsgroups and messages cause this to
occur and other dont). This seems to be a factor somehow (I am just trying to
find ways to reproduce this, not suggest causes as I am not looking at source
code at present).

Also just to clarify, this appears for me to be a window drawing refresh issue.
Whenever it does occur, if I click and drag the horizontal window separator to
resize it, the lower pane immediately clears itself up.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194638 ***