211471 - When I open Address Book, the divider bar between the addresses and the card summary window jumps up/down rapidly.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201379

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[J Vender]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

When I start Mozilla Address Book, the divider bar between the card name and the
card summary goes into a rapid cycle where it jumps up and down, which causes a
resizing the window bigger/smaller very rapidly, and the white space in the
summary window overlaps the status bar when the divider is in the lower position.
 If I then click on Collected Addresses to open the Collected Addresses window
which is empty, the quirky jittering stops. Then If I drag the divider down to
resize the window and then switch back to Personal Address Book, the jitter is
gone with the new window size...until the next time I open Address Book. Address
Book doesn't remember the resized window state, but reverts back to the original
divider bar position and goes into the jittery state again upon restart.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on Address Book icon in the browser component bar.
2.The jittery motion of the card windows starts.
3.Click on Collected Addresses in the Address Books list window.
4.Click and drag the Card window divider bar down to enlarge the card name window.
5.Click on Personal Address Book in the Addres Books list window.
6.The jittery motion of the divider bar is gone.
7.Close Address Book.
8.Restart Address Book.
9.The window resizing wasn't remembered and the jittery motion is back.
Actual Results:  
As Explained.

Expected Results:  
No jittery motion or loopy window behavior. The divider bar position should be
stable and remembered between sessions and the white space of the Card Summary
window should NOT overlap the status bar. This white space overlap has been a
persistent problem with Mozilla for a long time and should be fixed once and for
all.

Comment 1

[J Vender]

This bug appears when using the Classic theme. Also, I'm using 640x480
resolution and the jittery motion only occurs if I have about 2-4 entries in my
address book. It seems that the jittery motion may be a result of the address
list window trying to automatically resize to accomidate the entire height of
the last entry (speculation). The motion DOESN'T occur if I add more than about
4 entries or less than 2.

To test this bug, the user should set their screen resolution to 640x480 and
create an address book. The Card preview pane must be visible for this bug to
show up. Add 2 entries and check by closing and then restarting the address
book. Then add 1 more at a time and check after each new addition. The bug
should become visible after 3 or 4 entries are present in the address list.

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

Reporter, please recheck this in a 1.4.1 candidate build or recent trunk build,
and resolve the bug if appropriate.  This looks similar to fixed bug 201379. 
Also note the example mentioned in that bug,
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/examples/findfile/findfile-trees.xul

Comment 3

[Joe Infla]

duping; reopen if this problem persists

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201379 ***