263371 - scrollwheel should work while using drag and drop

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Helge Hielscher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804

When I use d&d the mousewheel stops working.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
example:
1. drag a bookmark from location bar
2. put the mouse cursor over large bookmark list (with scrollbar)
3. try to scroll the bookmark list with the mousewheel

Actual Results:  
the mousewheel does not work

Expected Results:  
the mousewheel scrolls while draging

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Helge Hielscher]

does not work in firefox 1.0.6

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

The problem is that it no events are fired at all (at least in windows) for mousewheel and all other mouse... events under windows.
I don't know what the situation is for linux, though.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Afaik, dragging on windows is supported by this file: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/src/windows/nsNativeDragSource.cpp

From the documentation, it seems only keypresses can be fired during drag operations on windows:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690071(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690076(VS.85).aspx

Maybe Ere or Jim might know how to do this.