230109 - text cursor is visible only when it (really) blinks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Komka Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 (20031205)

In XP it is possible to set the blinking rate to "no blink" ("zero").
In that case, the cursor does not appear. (At least in fields like "To" 
and "Subject".)
One does not know, in which field he is. (Until types some letters.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. in XP control panel / keyboard, set blinking speed to "0" (no blinking)
2. press Ctrl-M (new letter)

Actual Results:  
you are in the "To" field -- but it turns out only when you pressed a letter..


Expected Results:  
visible cursor (as in the body area)

Comment 1

[Robert Morris]

I have mine set to blink and I still seem to have the "no cursor" (I-beam)
problem sometimes, also; I noticed it last night working in the Address Book of
Mozilla Suite; this is probably an issue that affects both. Haven't isolated the
problem. (BTW, I was using a classic-style theme. Maybe this doesn't happen in
Modern?)

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This appears to be a problem with text fields in chrome but not in content.
Another place where this fails is the browser URLbar. Confirmed with Thunderbird
0.6 and SeaMonkey 1.7 branch build 2004051108. 

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->toolkit

Comment 4

[Gary Bishop]

I see this bug in Firefox 1.5.0.4 as well.

Comment 5

[Robert Morris]

Has anyone noticed this lately? I haven't on either OS X (which I've been using a lot of) or Windows (with occasional use) ... granted, that would be in Firefox these days and not the suite as when I noticed this problem many years ago, but I think it showed up in both, anyway.

Otherwise, unless anyone still sees this, I think we could WORKSFORME it.

Comment 6

[Robert Morris]

Per my previous comment six years ago, I'm going to resolve this. I'm guessing it was fixed somewhere along the line with many changes that have been made since this time since it WORKSFORME and presumably does for anyone else who hasn't commented since this time.