202330 - Hitting 'Cancel' before printing mail message causes Print Status window to flash on screen

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Printing, defect)

Description

[Henry Throop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

(see below)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read a mail message
2.Hit 'Print'
3.Hit 'Cancel' (or close the window)
4.A new window appears on the screen saying 'Print Status: Preparing...'
5.The window closes after ~ 1 sec

Actual Results:  
Window flashed onto screen briefly.

Expected Results:  
Window should not come onto screen, because there is no 'Preparing...' to do. 
The print window should close when the user cancels the print operation, and be
returned immediately to Mail.

The window that comes up is the exact same one that comes up when a mail message
is printed successfully, giving the user the impression that the message has
printed, even though they've hit cancel.

Regression; seems to be there in 1.3, but worked properly in 1.0

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

the same (preparing) window appears before the print dialog as well

==> mailnews/printing

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

this worksforme with linux trunk 2005050205, although 1.7.7 release still has
the bug.

please reopen if you can still reproduce with a trunk (nightly 1.8) build.