269655 - Error: autocomplete controller has no properties

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

When attempting to create a new event (by clicking the toolbar button), I get
the following error in the Javascript Console:

Error: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/autocomplete/controller;1'] has no
properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/autocomplete.xml
Line: 52

The event gets created normally.

Sunbird 0.2b OSX

Comment 1

[gekacheka]

This also has happened on Windows Sunbird builds as far back as I can remember,
maybe it has always happened.  It does not happen in the Calendar extensions.

--> hardware all, OS all.

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

So according to XULPlanet, there are different autocomplete interfaces for
Mozilla and Firefox. The parameters in our .xul files are of the Mozilla format.

Moving from one format to the other is not simply changing parameter labels.
Looking at what Firefox does, there are js functions associated with all sorts
of things... meaning it's not something I want to get into right now, but at
least we know why it was happening.

I've made a patch that puts the autocomplete stuff inside #ifndef MOZ_SUNBIRD

Comment 3

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Attachment: rev0 - puts Mozilla-only autocomplete inside ifndef MOZ_SUNBIRD

If possible, I feel this should make it into SB 0.2b1, to remove this bug's
error

Comment 4

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

using #ifndef MOZ_SUNBIRD will leave the firefox/thunderbird xpi's still broken.

Comment 5

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

(In reply to comment #4)
> using #ifndef MOZ_SUNBIRD will leave the firefox/thunderbird xpi's still broken.

Is there any definition that will give me what we need then?

Comment 6

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Not a build-time definition, because firefox and seamonkey both use the same xpi
files. It has to be runtime, or we have to decide to split the files. We are
gettting more and more conflicts...

Comment 7

[gekacheka]

Sounds like you are working on a different issue -- I don't get this error
message in firefox, only sunbird.  On the other hand, I don't think I've ever
seen any autocompletion on FF, TB, or Moz either (on w2k), so there may be other
autocomplete issues.

Comment 8

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

We could also choose to pull the autocomplete for now. That would remove the
conflict... ;)

Comment 9

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Comment on attachment 166614 [details] [diff] [review]
rev0 - puts Mozilla-only autocomplete inside ifndef MOZ_SUNBIRD

Checked into trunk and branch. Should I leave open for better fix?

Comment 10

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

Let's keep this open for a fix for the xpi's.

Comment 11

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Closing this as any future xpi will be toolkit-based.

-> FIXED