278635 - spell check window blocks edit window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531833

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Maurice Hilarius]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Opera 7.54  [en]
Build Identifier: 1.0 (20041206)

Edit email, spell check.
Speccl check window pops up in fornt of and over top of edit window.
One must move it to see the message to determine if spell check is needed.

Tested same in Win98, WinXP. Linux (FC3,X86_64)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.edit message
2.press "Send"
3.

Actual Results:  
Spell check window aoppeared ON TOP  OF EDIT WINDOW

Expected Results:  
Please spell check window in another location, prefeable below the edit window

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Given that development is going in a direction that will not display that dialog 
at all, this bug is moot.

bug 58612, bug 278310, bug 278312

Get a test build (Windows only) with the inline spell-checker at:
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/test/inlinespellcheck-test-
build/>
(That's all one URL string)

Comment 2

[Albert Feller]

you can still get the old style spell check window via Options-->"Check
Spelling..." in 2005-03-21-05-trunk.
I can reproduce this bug, but I don't know if I acknowledge this as a bug

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Maurice Hilarius]

Bug still exists.
It is an ergonomics issue.
When spell checking starts one has to drag ther spellcheck window off to the
side to see the text being checked.

Comment 5

[Egidio Leitao]

Here it is nearly 5 years later and the bug is still present in the Mac version of Thunderbird 3.0.1.  I tried 3 themes, including the default, and the spelling window is fixed right in the middle when it pops down from the reply/compose top bar, and there is no way to move it. The window is small enough so that it does not obstruct the text area in the email. In other words, the spelling window covers the address and subject areas, but not the email body.  If I need to modify anything in those areas, I am forced to stop the spell check.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

bug 531833 already has duplicates, so ...