277983 - Deleting a message while it is being loaded causes loss of focus in index window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 268098

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Neil Weisenfeld]

Every morning I open my e-mail to a number of "log" messages.  Some of them I'm
not interested in and simply hit delete.  What I've found is that I can click in
the message index on the first of a series of messages that I want to delete and
start clicking the delete button.  After each delete, T-bird moves to next
message and starts loading it in the preview pane.  I find that after a few of
these, I can't click Delete anymore because focus has been lost in the index window.

I'm guessing that the problem happens when the preview window is loading a
particularly large log file and I delete it while it's still loading.

This is a bit irritating and is probably related to the decoupling discussed in
bug #264951

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264951

Comment 1

[Neil Weisenfeld]

I should note that I *can* delete further messages, what I'm whining about is
having to suddenly move back to the index window, select a message, and then I'm
able to delete messages until focus is lost again.

Comment 2

[treddy]

I'd like to confirm I can reproduce this exact same bug with thunderbird version
1.0 (20041206) running on windows XP

Comment 3

[Nik Clayton]

Still present in 1.0.2 (20050317) on XP.

Comment 4

[Nik Clayton]

This is also a dupe of bug 268098 (which has been confirmed).

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Agreed on the dupe.  It's not actually a loss of focus, it's a loss of selection 
-- you can press an arrow key and select another message.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268098 ***