267220 - resizing body area of compose window grays out body area

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Philip Nemec]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.8

Resizing the body area of the compose window (dragging from below the subject
line) to make it smaller ends up graying out the body area.  Enlarging it
restores the area.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Thunderbird
2.  Hit Write button (or keyboard shortcut)
3.  resize the body area (make it smaller)
Actual Results:  
body area is grayed out

Expected Results:  
body area gets smaller

Once the body are is resized in a way that doesn't gray out the body area, then
resizing the body area works as expected.  Quit to reproduce again...

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I see this, TB 0.8, Win2K, default theme.

The behavior is pretty transient.  Here is what I see:
Create a new instance of the compose window (note that compose windows are 
cached once used...).  Grab the splitter and drag it down, towards the status 
line.  At some point, the drag stops -- it's as if the body has a minimum height 
below which the splitter won't go.  At the point it stops, the body is greyed 
out (colored like the background color of the toolbars).  Without releasing the 
splitter, drag up just one pixel -- body returns to normal color.  Continue 
dragging down, body greys again.

Then, release the splitter at any point.  Now start dragging it down again -- 
the "minimum height" is no longer in effect, you can drag all the way to the 
status bar without seeing the grey-out.

If you close the window, then click Write to open a "new" window (actually the 
same window, from cache), the grey out is not visible.  But an actual new 
compose window will exhibit the same symptom.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I no longer can reproduce this symptom, with TB 1.0.2 or TB 1.0+0414.