22780 - native file picker dialog pops up, but I can't click on it

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

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

if you go to
Edit | Preferences | Mail and Newsgroups
and try to change the mailnews start page with the "Choose..." button

or
if you go to
Edit | Preferences | Navigator
and try to change the home page with the "Choose..." button

we open up a native file picker dialog.  it comes up, but I am unable to select
a file with it.  It seems like the dialog is up, but since the pref dialog is
modal, it "blocks" the other dialog.

are there know problems with modal dialogs opening up other modal dialogs?

Comment 1

[Stuart Parmenter]

yes, there is a problem with a modal dialog opening a non-modal dialog (file
picker).  There are two problems keeping me from fixing this... one is that the
file picker currently doesn't pass along a valid parent for me to check to see
if it is modal and do something different to the file picker if it is.  This
will be fixed once nsIFilePicker (part of widget) is finished and replaces
nsIFileWidget and nsIFileSpecWithUI  (I'm working on this).  The second problem
is I'm not entirely sure what the correct behavior of a modal dialog bringing
up a non modal dialog should be.

Comment 2

[Stuart Parmenter]

also, you could add yourself to the list of people who don't get modal dialogs
for prefs in one of the prefs .cpp files ;)

Comment 3

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

I think mcafee just made that a pref.
(the modality of the pref window).

thanks for jumping in with some answers.

Comment 4

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

*** Bug 22941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Stuart Parmenter]

made filepicker modal.  fixed.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verified using 2000011308 comm bits for linux.

Comment 7

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.