260717 - To: in Create Mail windows invisible

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Tom Jac]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040920 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040920 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

minim./maxim. the window shows To: field

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Mail
2.Create Mail
3.

Actual Results:  
no To: field

Expected Results:  
To: field visible

Comment 1

[Christopher Archer]

Confirmed in Mozilla nightly 2004092010, WinXP SP2

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040920

Normally, when I open 'Compose', there are four lines for addresses, separated
by blue borders. Here, I see only one of them, normally sized, the three others
seem to be drawn with no visible border.

Normally, 'compose' comes up with the cursor blinking in the adress field.
Here I can enter an address blindly, will be seen after resize or maybe Enter.
Normally, after entering an adress, the next To:is shown.
Here, I need to resize, or change the previous To: to some other value.

I also had some problems to checkin, password manager wasn´t working on
bugzilla, also after going back to Mozilla 1.8a3. Maybe another bug, or
something horked in the profile.

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

must have regressed between BuildID 2004091804 and BuildID 2004092010

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040918

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This regressed between the morning of the 19th and the morning of the 20th (same
regression range as the context menu bustage).

This looks like a smoketest blocker to me (blocks smoketest M1).

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Using Mozilla 1.8a4
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040921
I definitely don't see the "To" button. Nominating.

Comment 6

[Mitch]

Attachment: Crash from typing in the To: field.

If you move the separator bar between the header and the body of the compose
message window then the "To:" field does appear, though typing a few addresses
into the "To:" fields yeilds the following crash stack.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 260886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

aaronl, could your patch in bug 260657 also take care of this issue? (nevermind,
though, if this is an unrelated issue!)

Comment 9

[Bruce Wolfe]

With regards to invisibility, the cursor in the message area stays invisible
until one clicks in the area itself.  This is very annoying.

Comment 10

[Aaron Leventhal]

This might be fixed by my checkin. I just tried with the patch applied and when
I hit Ctrl+M I do get a "To:" field, although I get an error alert while the
compose window is being created. That could be because my tree is a bit old.

I won't know more until I get the full tree built again tomorrow. Maybe someone
else can try it by then.

Comment 11

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

Bruce: the caret invisibility is bug 257581.

Comment 12

[Kenan]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040921

In my inbox mails everything is displayed correctly but the "To:"  is empty. I
suppose that this is the same bug.

Comment 13

[Mitch]

Kenan, no that is a different bug. Please log it separately as that issue is on
the "To:" on the message window pane being blank. This bug is for "To:" on the
compose window not appearing. The mailnews component seems to have gotten very
ill recently. Evolution 2.0 is looking like a real contender. So far there are 4
blocker issues making mozilla mailnews unuseable (for me at least).

1. No "To:" fields in compose window
2. "To:" line is blank in message display window
3. gtk2 message attachments not possible
4. Control-U to view message source broken

Comment 14

[Tom Jac]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Please log it separately

#260970

5. no cursor in Create Mail field

Comment 15

[Larry Cook]

> must have regressed between BuildID 2004091804 and BuildID 2004092010

On WinNT and Win2K, BuildID 2004091907 does not have this bug.  The next Windows
installer I could find was BuildID 2004092012 and that has this bug.  

Also, I wouldn't rule out bug 260970 being related to this one, since they both
seem to have appeared at the same time.  

Other than these two bugs, mailnews is working well for me, although I really
only send and receive POP3 mail on multiple accounts, and occasionally check two
newsgroups.

Has anyone gone though the checkins to see what could have caused this regression?

Comment 16

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Larry, see comment 10.

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by checkin for bug 260657

Comment 18

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED with the 2004-10-01-05 Seamonkey trunk builds on XP.