21353 - Clicks to Win32 widgets that dismiss menus not passed to Windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 21390

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Sean Richardson]

* Overview:
Clicking outside an active menu in Mozilla dismisses that menu, but if the
click is on the Win32 system menu widget (App icon at left end of title
bar) or any of the minimize, maximize/unmaximize, or close widgets (at right
end of title bar), that Win32 widget does not activate.

* Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any of the menus on the menubar or personal toolbar to activate it.
2. Click on the Win32 system menu widget or any of the minimize,
   maximize/unmaximize, or close widgets on the title bar
3. Click again on the same widget.

* Actual Results:
The click in step 2 dismisses the menu, but does not activate the Win32
widget that was clicked on. A second click (step 3) does.

* Expected Results:
The click in step 2 both dismisses the menu and activates the Win32 widget.

* Does not work correctly on:
1999-12-09-08-M12 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3

* Works correctly on:
NN 4.7, or any other Win32 app I've seen.

* Additional information:
Since Mozilla no longer uses any Win32 widgets except for the widgets in
the title bar, this result is no surprise; it may be necessary to re-generate
the event to pass it to the Windows OS to get this to work correctly.

This bug found attempting to replicate bug 19974 on WinNT (that bug not found).

Giving to "UE/UI" component even though this is an "Event Handling" bug;
this looks like a low-priority must-fix to me - you guys can decide when
to pass it over to Event Handling. I say must-fix because this makes Mozilla
a bad neighbour in Win32 land, refusing to minimize or close immediately.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

This bug is a special case of bug 21390 "[4.xP] Clicking on Widget or link does
nothing if menu open" My mistake, I should have tested to see, not assumed,
that the same problem did not afflict ALL widgets in Mozilla.

Marking as DUPLICATE of 21390.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21390 ***

Comment 2

[Eli Goldberg]

Reassigning to sairuh to re-open or verify. Thanks!

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

zip-zoop, verified as dup...

Comment 4

[leger]

Moving all UE/UI bugs to new component: User Interface: Design Feedback
UE/UI component will be deleted.