204942 - Chatzilla: focus on view-window after swapping windows

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Jo Hermans]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

When I'm in Chatzilla, and I swap to the browser (clicking on a link for
instance, or presing cmd-1), and then swap back to Chatzilla (cmd-3), the focus
is inside the view-window, and not inside the input-textfield at the bottom. Teh
view is scrolled at the corretc place, whcih is normally the last line. But when
you try to continue the conversation, the window will jump all over the place.
The reason is that the focus is inside the view-window, and type ahead is
active. So when I try to type "I see", I get teleported immediately to the first
occurence of the letter I *from the top* (which is normally exactly the opposite
from what I was looking at).

I think that the focus should automatically be to the input-field, which should
prevent these problem. Chatzilla mainly for chatting, which requires the
keyboard. Looking up things in the history is a much lower priority itme, so I'm
happy to force the focus to the the view-window, before I start to use typeahead
find or a regular find.

I looked for a duplicate, but I couldn't find one. Bug 74408 talks about the
same issues, but doesn't seem to work anymore.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

When you click a link in CZ, you move the focus from the input box to the output. 

Not Mac only. 

Comment 2

[Samuel Sieb]

Pressing ESC should bring the focus back to the textbox.

Comment 3

[Mike Coppins]

I'm seeing this bug on 1.5 release / win32.

Comment #2's suggestion works for me.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Attachment: Puts the focus back in the textbox after a sucessful link click

After you click a link, this puts the focus back in the input so when you
return to the ChatZilla window it's where you want it. If you change back to
the ChatZilla window by clicking in the chat area, it won't work, but it's
better than nothing.

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Checked in.