272945 - Wide layout display glitches

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tom Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

When displaying long messages, the scroll bar behaves as if the 
bottom of the physical screen is the bottom of the window.  As a
result, the scroll button becomes inaccessible towards the 
bottom of the document.  

This only seems to happen in "Wide view," in which the folder 
and message selection panes share the top, and the message
pane is the full width of the browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird.  be in "Wide" view mode.

2. Grab the bottom of the Thunderbird window with the mouse and 
   drag it up to, say. 25% from the bottom of the monitor.

3. Select and display a message with text that is as long as 
   (or longer than) the full monitor height.

4. Try to scroll down to the bottom of the message using the 
   right-side message scroll bar.


Actual Results:  
The scroll button disappeared below the bottom of the Thunderbird window.

Expected Results:  
It should have configured the scroll bar (and scroll button size/range)
to fit the actual window height.

The computer is running Windows 98 SE.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 244331 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

See URL for a screenshot from duped bug that illustrates the problem.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I see this with TB 0.9+1201, Win2K.

It's very tricky to describe.  As seen in the screenshot, the status bar (and 
attachment bar) can be hidden -- truncated by the bottom of the window.

This is related to the splitter position, and (I would guess) some minimum 
heights.  When the problem is visible, it may seem that dragging the splitter is 
not possible -- but in fact, if you drag downwards, the internal height of the 
message pane decreases, the scrollbar starts to shift, and after a certain point 
the status bar and attachment bar scroll into view from "below" the window 
bottom.

Comment 4

[Tom Williams]

This shows up particularly on my laptop, which has a 600 x 800 
pixel screen.  

Another symptom of the same bug: just as the scroll bar "thinks"
the window is longer, so does the text display.  End result is
that the text at the bottom of the message is invisible.

-Tom Williams

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 277168 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[u52928]

I can confirm this bug; the description fits 100% I, too, am using Win98SE.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090201 Shredder/3.0b2pre

I am however able to size the window+splitter such that the scrollbar disappears