277199 - A form often can't get back focus after I go to another (non-Mozilla) window and return

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/contrib/firefox-os2-1.0.zip

Filling out a form (e.g., a customer support form at Insight.com), I go to
another window (e.g., pmmail or a text editor) to look for some information.  On
return, I can't get an I-beam cursor in any field of the form.  Typing is
useless.  Sometimes this can be fixed, as by hitting the browser's Back button
and going forward again.  I have not been able to isolate the problem further;
it does not connect in any obvious way with what software I visit, or what
operations I perform while there.

This was present in Mozilla 1.7 on OS/2, and is one of the reasons I've been
stuck with 1.4 for so long.




Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a form at a website.  I see no connection with specific sites.
2. Having started to fill it out, go to some other window.
3. Come back and try to type further.

Actual Results:  
Can't type.  No I-beam

Expected Results:  
See an I-beam, succeed in typing into the form.

Running eCS 1.0 (all fixes installed).  The problem is no doubt related to my
configuration, which is not click-for focus, but transfers focus to where the
mouse is.  But the problem does not appear in any software other than Mozilla in
versions starting somewhere after 1.4 (probably in 1.7).

When I call it Normal, a bug that should be fixed, I mean that it's back to
Mozilla 1.4 for me.  I didn't dare try to submit this form under Firefox.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If you see the same thing in Firefox and the app suite, then it must be
something in the Core product, maybe Events but Editor seems like a most likely
first stop.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Which OS version, video driver, and mouse driver are you using? Are you using
any extensions? If so, which?

Comment 3

[bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Which OS version, video driver, and mouse driver are you using? Are you using
> any extensions? If so, which?

eCS 1.0, all fixes installed.  I'm embarrassingly unsure of the list of
extensions and versions.  What;s most likely relevant is XWPS.  Apparently
V1.0.0, 11/23/02.  I also have Dragtext & xcenter, which don't seem likely, but
what do I know?

Video driver is SciTech, version 2.0 (I believe).  Using mouse.sys (dated
10/23/02). 
Sliding focus & sliding menu selection enabled in xwps.  Also auto-move of mouse
pointer to dialog button. 
Also, auto-hide mouse  pointer. Hmmm.  I'll have to fire up firefox again & see
if that could possibly be part of the problem.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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