219159 - Subject line inaccessable until cursor has been in body text area

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Adrian Redmond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/2003082704

When composing a new mail, having typed the to: and cc: addresses, if I mouse
click on the subject line to place the cursor there before typing a subject
title, the cursor does not appear on the subject line - the subject line appears
inaccessable. If I move the mouse to the message body text area, click and type
all or part of the mail body, then move the mouse up to the subject line and
click, the blinking cursor appears as normal and the subject line is accessible
as normal.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
I had expected this to work like previous releases and other windows based software.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Did you use the backspace key while entering the To or CC fields? If so, please
look at bug 215169 and bug 217390, either of which you might be seeing here.

Comment 2

[Adrian Redmond]

No - I usually use either "Reply to" or "new-mail" - then use mouse to locate
cursor in To: (if the cursor isn't already there) - using mouse to locate cursor
in subsequent cc: or bcc: fields, then mouse to subject line (if new mail, or
reply to requires editing of subject line).

Thgough having read your post, I can see how using backspace to delete an
unrequired t0: field causes this bug to invoke - I guess we're talking the same
issue here. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This appears to be a dupe of bug 217692 -- and both bugs are reported on the 
same 1.5b-0827 build.

Adrian Redmond, do you still see this problem, using 1.5 Final?

Comment 4

[Adrian Redmond]

This appears to have been fixed in 1.5 - at least on my version!

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

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