21966 - [DOGFOOD]z-order problems with the addressing widget (html select)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

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I've got 11 mail identities, and when I bring up
a mail compose window, and click on the "To:" html select
picker (to choose my identity) the z-order is messed up.

I'll attached a screen shot.

assign to kevin and cc ducarroz

Comment 1

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Attachment: a screen shot of the problem

Comment 2

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marking dogfood, as it prevents me from selecting my last few identities.

the last few are hidden under the editor widget in the compose window.

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

From the screenshot it looks like combobox dropdown is being clipped against all
native windows.

Reassigning to Rod.

Comment 4

[leger]

Putting on the PDT- radar.  Spoke with sspitzer.  You can do 6 mail identities
before this clips.

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

In fact it's a dup of bug 21830.

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

Patrick, I think the clipping is incorrect for views with native windows and I
think this is the same bug that I had assigned to you a while back as a blocker.
When a dropdown list drops down over another view that has a native widget it
gets clipped out.

I tried setting the z-index on the dropdown to a zero and then to a 10 and
neither seemed to fix the problem. This bug will go away when we have gotten rid
of all but one native window, so I don't know if it is worth spending any time
on.

Comment 7

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** Bug 22378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jerry Baker]

Adding myself to the CC: list

Comment 9

[Patrick C. Beard]

It's not a z-index problem, but a clipping problem. I think it's because the view
is opaque, and that causes parent clipping to occur. Opaque views that go outside
of their parents only work if we're using fixed-positioning.

Comment 10

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

*** Bug 22932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[chris hofmann]

<relnote> a maximum of 6 mail identities is supported in current 
builds</relnote>

Comment 12

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yuck, I don't like that release note.

we can support more than 6 identities. 

the only problem is in the compose window, there is a html select widget bug and
the identity picker is cut off.

you can still use the other identities.

I'd rather the release note say that.

(should we move to using a title button and a cascading  menu?  that will
probably solve this problem, and look better)

Comment 13

[Alec Flett]

I saw a checkin to html.css yesterday which may fix this. try with today's
build, see if it's working.

Comment 14

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

yes, beard's checkin to html.css fixes this.

marking fixed.

I have 9 identities and I can see them all in the "from:" picker.

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

Setting Milestone to M14 so it appears in my queries.

Comment 16

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2000-03-02-08M15: NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 8.5.1
Verified Fixed.

Comment 17

[Jerry Baker]

Mass removing self from CC list.

Comment 18

[Jerry Baker]

Now I feel sumb because I have to add back. Sorry for the spam.