251375 - selecting a message and then sorting causes the selected item to go off-screen

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matthew the frog]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: version 0.7.2 (20040707)

when viewing the contents of a folder with many messages, if you select an email
and then choose a different sort order (perhaps sender name), the re-sort
occurs, but your highlight message is out of the viewable window.  Using an
up-down arrow key returns the view to the previously selected item.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a folder with many messages and select one of those messages
2. choose a different sort-order (or item)
3. Your selection will now be off-screen if you have enough messages in the folder

Actual Results:  
The item that was selected (highlighted) went out of view.

Note: using the up or down arrow will change the focus and bring the area of the
selected item into view (although you will then have a new selected item)

Expected Results:  
The list should have maintained the selected message in-view.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 282381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this the same situation described in bug 111665 comment 8 -- that is, the 
failure to scroll after sorting only occurs when the message pane is not 
visible?  I can confirm that behavior, with TB 1.0, Win2K.

The patch in bug 186999 fixed this problem in the suite; I thought, from a quick 
glance at the patch, that it was to backend code, but maybe it needs to be 
ported.

Comment 3

[Christian Shay]

This should be treated an a relatively higher priority as it is a key feature
for those of us with very large mail folders.

Comment 4

[Matthew the frog]

Recently, I updated to: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206) and still experience
the same behavior.

This behavior looks identical to the situation described in:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111665#c8

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This should be treated an a relatively higher priority as it is a key feature
> for those of us with very large mail folders.

Here's a simple workaround: after resorting, press the down-arrow followed by 
the up-arrow.  The selected message will scroll into view.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This problem is fixed in trunk builds of Thunderbird -- I just tested using
1.0+0302, Win2K.  TB 1.1 (not 1.0.1) will include whatever patch it was that 
fixed it.

Find trunk builds at:
  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 268366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Markus Faßbender]

This bug is still there if you are in "group by mode" and change the sort
column. I filled a new bug for this problem.

See bug 297772.