260380 - shift-tab in compose window only tabs between visible items in address list

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alan Danziger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
Build Identifier: 

I have 4 addresses visible.  I added a fifth and went to remove the first, which had scrolled off-screen.  I 
hit shift-tab from subject, got to the 4th visible email address.  shift-tab again took me to the 3rd 
visible.  I continued shift-tabbing and it went from the first visible back to the body pane, rather than 
scrolling to the first (offscreen) address.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new email message.
2. add enough To: or Bcc: or Cc: addresses that some are off-screen.
3. try to shift-tab back to the earlier, off-screen addresses.
4. Notice that when you shift-tab from the top-most on-screen address, you return to the body frame.
5. Notice that when you shift-tab from the body pane you get to Subject, then to Addresses, but only 
the Addresses that are visible on-screen.
Actual Results:  
Step 4.

Expected Results:  
Shift-tab from the top-most visible address should scroll up the addresses window to show the 'last 
off-screen' address, etc.  Only when you have scrolled through all of the addresses (visible or not) 
shift-tab should take you to the body tab.

This is in Thunderbird 0.73.  I had to back out of 0.8 because of another bug I'll enter (if it isn't already 
entered) imminently.

Comment 1

[Ryan Rubley]

I can confirm for TB 0.8, shift-tab will not scroll the address list like it
should, and thus skips past some of the addresses.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I have 4 addresses visible.  I added a fifth and went to remove the first,
> which had scrolled off-screen.  I hit shift-tab from subject, got to the 4th
> visible email address.  shift-tab again took me to the 3rd visible.  I
> continued shift-tabbing and it went from the first visible back to the body
> pane, rather than scrolling to the first (offscreen) address.

Back to the body pane, or to the From: dropdown?


> 4. Notice that when you shift-tab from the top-most on-screen address,
> you return to the body frame.

With TB 0.9, Win2K, I am seeing Shift-tab scroll the list downwards to bring 
items into view, just as tab will scroll the list upwards.

I do see that tab from the From: dropdown, or shift-tab from the Subject, puts 
the focus on the visible item at the top or bottom of the list, but once there 
the other items are still accessible; but that seems OK to me.

Alan Danziger, do you still see this problem with current builds?  It could be a 
Mac-only issue.

Comment 3

[Alan Danziger]

I do still see this on thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103).

Enter 5 or more entries into the "To" list.
Tab to "Subject" and enter text
Tab to body and enter text

shift-tab and you get to subject as expected.
shift-tab and you get to the 4th (bottom-most) visible item
shift-tab and you get to the 3rd
shift-tab and you get to the 2nd
shift-tab and you get to the 1st visible item
shift-tab and you get to the message body.


Alternatively, if you scroll up with the mouse and select the top-most "To:" (some of which can be CC, 
BCC - I'm just using 'To' as the identifier of the box) you can tab (w/out shift) and it'll cycle through all 
of the addresses, then to Subject, then to Body.

OK I just tested it on Windows and it does two things differently, both of which I guess make sense --  
(a) it works, (b) it lets you tab to the drop-down menus (From and each of the 'To/CC/BCC').

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Ryan Rubley, are you also running TB on a Mac?

Comment 5

[Ryan Rubley]

No, 0.9 on Windows. This issue no longer exists. Shift+TAB works fine now. Did
not work in 0.8 Windows, but is fixed now.

Comment 6

[Frankie]

Tab scrolls down through the whole address list, but Shift-Tab only selects the
visible items. I'd guess that this shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Comment 7

[Mattias]

I cannot shift-tab from the message back to the subject line.  TB 1.0+ 20050601

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I cannot shift-tab from the message back to the subject line.

Not this bug.  See bug 296468.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still broke version 1.6a1 (20050911)
updating HW/SW

Comment 10

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Wayne, still broken in latest 2.0.0.x or trunk nightlies?

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

on windows anyway, expected result of comment 0 is easily recreated. tested with trunk. shift-tab from subjects goes to last _visible_ address, not to the last address in the list, where last address is not visible.

HOwever, perhaps present behavior is correct?

Comment 12

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

wfm release 68.8.1 (32-Bit) and Daily 79.0a1 (2020-06-03) (64-bit).
shift+tab from subject will scroll invisible addresses/address fields into view and focus them (correct).