23445 - [Windows] ALT,SPACEBAR is not activating control menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86770

(Core :: XUL, defect, P5)

Description

[Sean Richardson]

Overview:
ALT,spacebar is not activating the Windows control menu (hiding behind the
application icon at the left end of the title bar) like ALT+spacebar does
(bug 19328, WORKSFORME).

Fixing this probably means making [spacebar] an accelerator key for the main
menubar, which then selects the same action that ALT+spacebar is triggering
directly.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch any Mozilla App.
2. Type ALT,SPACEBAR (press ALT, release, hit spacebar)

Actual Result:
Focus goes to the menubar; other than that, nothing at all.

Expected Result:
Focus goes to the menubar, then the control menu activates so that a selection
can be made from it.

Tested with:
2000-01-06-08-M13 nightly binary on Windows NT 4.0sp3

This almost certainly occurs on all MS-Windows OS.

The same sort of widget may be triggered the same way with some X Window
Managers - don't know.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Applying Priority and Target Milestone assigned by [e-mail]
in bug 19328 before this got split off.

Comment 2

[leger]

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XP Menus to XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus.  XP 
Menus component will be deleted.

Comment 3

[saari (gone)]

Fixed

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

tested with opt comm bits on winNT 2000022408 --and this is what i see:

  press Alt, release, hit spacebar -> nothing happens

however, if i do the following:

  hold down Alt, hit spacebar *twice*

then the windows control menu appears. hitting spacebar once is not enough,
though.

dunno if this is expected behavior, since on 4.7x, i only need to do what
[e-mail] originally outline (or hit the spacebar once when holding Alt
down).

Comment 5

[Sean Richardson]

No, to activate the Windows control menus it should only be necessary to press 
[spacebar] once after ALT-release.

Restested with the 2000-02-24-08-M14 nightly binary on WinNT I could get the 
control menu to show by keying ALT+space+space (as seen by sairuh) or 
ALT-release,ALT+space. Both of those are variations on ALT+space, the subject 
of bug 19328, which will get REOPENed.

ALT,space -- the subject of this bug, did not work either. REOPENing.

These problems are quite possibly a result of either the regression in
bug 18598, "menus take focus on "alt," then behave in a non-standard way",
(2000-02-14) or its fix.

Comment 6

[saari (gone)]

FYI try hitting alt, letting go and then hitting alt+space. That seems to work.

Comment 7

[saari (gone)]

*** Bug 13372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[saari (gone)]

giving to hyatt, M20

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass move of all M20 bugs to M30.

Comment 10

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass move of M20 bugs to M30

Comment 11

[:deanis74]

It's more than just Alt,Space that should work (staying within the context of 
this bug).  In a standard Windows app you can press and release Alt to activate 
the menu bar, arrow left/right to your hearts content, activating different 
top-level menu items, and then press space to display the system menu.

Accomplishing what I described in Moz actually shouldn't be too tough.  I think 
that GetSystemMenu() and TrackPopupMenu() are going to come into play along the 
way, though.

Adding myself to the cc: list to remind me to look at this if I get time.

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

"FYI try hitting alt, letting go and then hitting alt+space. That seems to 
work."
This doesn't work for me.

Latest behavior in 2000050608 seems to be that pressing (and holding) alt, then 
pressing (and holding) space for an extended period of time will show the 
system menu. Still not right though - you should be able to let go of space 
immediately, not hold it down.

Comment 13

[Blake Ross]

By the way, that behavior I described (alt(hold)+space(hold) only works if an 
HTML textbox/textarea doesn't currently have the focus.

Comment 14

[:deanis74]

Blake, Alt then Alt+Space still works for me with the 2000050615 build.  But as 
you mentioned, it didn't work when a textbox was active, including the Location 
field.

Comment 15

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass-moving all M20-M30 XPToolkit bugs to Future

Comment 16

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*spam*: transferring current XP Menu bugs over to jrgm, the new component owner.
feel free to add me to the cc list (unless am the Reporter) of any of these, if
you have any questions/etc.

Comment 17

[Antti Näyhä]

*** Bug 41407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[David Hyatt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19328 ***

Comment 19

[Blake Ross]

hyatt, I don't think it's a dup...19328 is that pressing alt and spacebar at 
the same time doesn't show the control menu.  This bug is that pressing alt, 
then letting go, then pressing spacebar doesn't activate the control menu...re-
resolve as dup if you still disagree

Comment 20

[David Hyatt]

They're similar enough to be lumped under the same bug.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19328 ***

Comment 21

[Blake Ross]

okay--vrfy

Comment 22

[:deanis74]

19328 has been fixed.  This problem still exists.  Re-opening.

Comment 23

[:deanis74]

Would anyone object if I duped this in favor of bug 86770?  That's for the same
problem, but it's a much cleaner bug (less chatter).

Comment 24

[:deanis74]

I've attached a patch to bug 86770.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86770 ***

Comment 25

[timeless]

vrfy dupe