216627 - Text boxes in 'Mail & Newsgroups Account (creation) Wizard' don't show (initial) cursor caret, or accept cursor keys

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214306

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Stephen Warren]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

When starting up Mail/News for the first time, a wizard is displayed to create a
new account. This includes text boxes e.g. for the name of the account (on the
final page) (although I think this problem occurs for most/all text boxes in at
least this wizard)

1. No blinking caret is displayed to show where the cursor is.

2. Clicking with the mouse doesn't help with item 1.

3. Press the left arrow/cursor key a couple of times. Type some more characters.
They are always appended at the end of the string, not where you'd expect the
cursor to be based on your cursor key presses.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open new mail account creation dialog
2. Get to last page (may happen on others)
3. Look for cursor caret. Not visible.
4. Attempt to use left arrow/cursor key, then type. Text is always appended
instead of being inserted in middle of string.

Actual Results:  
1. No caret visible.
2. Cursor keys don't work.

Expected Results:  
1. See blinking caret
2. Cursor keys affect insertion point of newly typed text.
3. Not sure, but the distinction between DEL/BACKSPACE may not be correct either.

Comment 1

[Stephen Warren]

Still present in Mozilla 1.5b

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827] (W98SE)

Confirming on W98SE.

Simple Testcase: (fixing the first dialog should fix them all !?)
1. Start M&N
2. Edit > M&N Account Settings...
3. Add Account...
4. Choose either 'Email' or 'Newsgroup' account

5a. No visible caret in 'Your Name' (but typing works)
5b. Right arrow, Home ... keys are unresponsive
5c. Mouse oprations (position/selection) works +/-, but without activating any
visible focus

Workarounds:
*Switch (A-Tab, for example) to another window,
 Switch back to the account wizard: the caret is now visible
*Press 'Tab' to go to 'Email Address': the caret is now visible;
 Press 'S-Tab' to come back to 'Y.N.' field.
 (This easier one works only for dialogs with more than one field !)

It looks like a (initial) "focus" issue !

(NB: Nothing in JS.Console.)

Changing:
*Status: Unconfirmed -> New
*Blocks: (N/A) -> bug 64451

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Addition to comment 2:

"(This easier one works only for dialogs with more than one field !)"
Wrong: it works on all dialogs ... Tab keys focuses the 'Back' button... :-)

Comment 4

[Jack Tanner]

This behavior is not present in 1.4 on Windows XP. Either it's a regression in
1.5a/1.5b, or there's something funny going on.

Comment 5

[Stefan Borggraefe]

The focus bug was fixed via bug 214306 (this should work as expected again since
Mozilla 1.7/Thunderbird 0.6). The cursor keys work normal again, too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214306 ***