264050 - Event alarm can only be specified in terms of minutes, not hours or days

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Keith Bonawitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040907 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2a

When creating or editing an Event Alarm, the combo box which allows the user to
specify Minutes/Hours/Days won't change value.  Even if the user selects
"Hours", it immediately reverts back to reading "minutes".

This worked in previous version of sunbird.  As a workaround, the user can just
enter all times in minutes (eg, 120 minutes instead of 2 hours), but this is
impractical for large offsets.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new event
2. In the event edit window, enable the alarm checkbox.
3. Try to select "hours" from the combo box.

Actual Results:  
The alarm offset should be measured in hours, and "hours" should be displayed in
the combo box.

Expected Results:  
The combo box continues to read "minutes".

Comment 1

[Wm]

WFM (Works For Me)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 +
2004091012-cal

Could someone check if this is Sunbird specific? (I am guessing not as I think
we'd have heard more about it).

Are you using a non-default theme, Keith?

Comment 2

[Keith Bonawitz]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Are you using a non-default theme, Keith?

Nope, I'm using the default one that comes with Sunbird (I can attach screenshot
for verification, if that's helpful).  If there's a chance that this is an
installation problem, I can also try uninstalling & reinstalling.

Comment 3

[Wm]

lets try the screenshot first

Comment 4

[Keith Bonawitz]

Attachment: Screenshot of Sunbird main windows for theme verification on bug 264050

Comment 5

[Keith Bonawitz]

Attachment: Screenshot of Sunbird new event windows for theme verification on bug 264050

Comment 6

[Wm]

apols: I misread your message, I wasn't doubting what you said about the theme;
I thought the screenshots would show the problem.

only other thing I can think to ask is how are you selecting from the drop down?
arrow keys? first letter? mouse? (though all work for me)

there is a test build for windows dated 20041008 (which I am now using) in
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/xpi/windows/
which may be worth trying

Comment 7

[Keith Bonawitz]

Sorry about the miscommunication!  I've posted a screencap video of the bug in
action at: http://catgufu.mit.edu/bonawitz+mozbugs/sunbird-screencap.zip .  It's
a 390kb zipped avi.

I also tried installing the calendar xpi as a firefox tool (this is for the
calendar component, not the sunbird standalone, as I understand).  The bug is
not present in that install.  I guess that means that the bug falls into one of
three classes: fixed in CVS; specific to sunbird while not present calendar
tool; or specific to my sunbird installation (eg, the installation is corrupted
somehow).

Comment 8

[Keith Bonawitz]

Well, I just uninstalled and reinstalled Sunbird, same version as before:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040907 Mozilla
Sunbird/0.2a

The bug no longer happens; the minutes/hours/days combo seems to work exactly as
it should.  It looks like my installation just became corrupted somehow.

Thanks for your time!

Comment 9

[Wm]

no problem

could someone with the permission mark as RESOLVED, please

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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