250406 - Some context menu options greyed out

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Thib]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[INFO] Chatzilla 0.9.64d [Mozilla rv:1.7/20040626]

On Undernet, DALnet and Freenode, I am experiencing a situation where the
'Whois', 'Open Private Chat' and 'Get Version Information' commands are greyed
out in the context menu after a right click on a user's name or message in the
main panel (but everything works as expected in the user list panel). However,
upon logging on to Moznet's #chatzilla, I noticed that things worked normally.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
This is what I do:
1. Log on to a channel on Undernet, Freenode or DALnet (possibly others...)
2. Wait till someone says something.
3. Right-click the user's name, or the user's message, in the main panel. 
4. Right-click the user's name in the user list panel. 

Actual Results:  
3: Some options are greyed out, such as 'Whois'.
4: The options are available, such as 'Whois'.


Expected Results:  
3: The options should have been available for me to click. Note that when I
logged on to Moznet to talk about this issue, things worked as expected
(Murphy's Law) on Moznet.


I was directed to perform the following test:

/eval dd = function (msg) { client.displayHere(msg) }
/pref debugMode c

Then I right-clicked on a user (fee) in the main panel on Undernet. I got the
following message in the client tab:

[INFO]	context 'context:messages'
+ originalEvent (object)
+ sourceObject (object)
+ TYPE (string) 'IRCChannel'
+ parent (object)
+ user (object)
+ channel (object)
+ server (object)
+ network (object)
+ viewType (string) 'Channel'
+ channelName (string) '#grenoble'
+ networkName (string) 'undernet'
+ url (string) 'irc://irc.undernet.org/fee,isnick'
+ nickname (string) 'fee'
+ canonNick (string) 'fee'
+ menuManager (object)
+ contextSource (string) 'context:messages'
*

Any subsequent right-click on user fee produced the right results (no greying
out). But any right-click on other users past that first one produced greying
out and result in the client tab as follows:

[INFO]	context 'context:messages'
+ originalEvent (object)
+ sourceObject (object)
+ TYPE (string) 'IRCChannel'
+ parent (object)
+ user (object) null
+ channel (object)
+ server (object)
+ network (object)
+ viewType (string) 'Channel'
+ channelName (string) '#grenoble'
+ networkName (string) 'undernet'
+ url (string) 'irc://irc.undernet.org/bzzbzz,isnick'
+ menuManager (object)
+ contextSource (string) 'context:messages'
*

Further weirdness: After talking about this on Moznet's #chatzilla, I closed and
re-opened ChatZilla to make a clean fresh test so that I could post it here. I
only logged on to Undernet this time, *not* Moznet, and performed the above
test, and it failed every time, for everyone, including the first user clicked.
But then I just said:

/attach moznet

and miraculously the first right-click I made worked and produced the results above!

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

in the second context object, the user object is null, but the url is correct...
strange.

Comment 2

[Thib]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040629 Firefox/0.9.1
[INFO]	Chatzilla 0.9.64d [Mozilla rv:1.7/20040629]

It's even more confusing there. I tried out several places on Undernet, Freenode
and DALnet and sometimes the commands are greyed out, sometimes not. (Mostly
greyed out.)

Comment 3

[James Ross]

The key is subtle. It's the nickname of the user you're right-clicking - if
their nickname isn't all lower-case, it fails. I have it fixed here for 0.9.64e.

Comment 4

[Thib]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The key is subtle. It's the nickname of the user you're right-clicking - if
> their nickname isn't all lower-case, it fails. I have it fixed here for 0.9.64e.

Good job :-)