289921 - Second window prevents focus from reaching modal dialog

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Rod Whiteley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; it-IT; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When an application has one window open, that window passes focus correctly to
its modal dialog.  When the appplication has a second window open, focus does
not pass to the dialog.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Mozilla application (for example, Firefox)
2. Open a second window in the same application (for example, another browser
window)
3. From one of the windows, create a modal dialog (for example, choose Tools -
Options)
4. Move focus to the desktop, or to some other window
5. Click the dialog's parent window.
Actual Results:  
The dialog does not get focus.

Expected Results:  
The window you click should pass focus to its dialog.

If you omit step 2 or close the second window, then it works as expected.

This affects Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and Mozilla Suite.

It is a serious usability problem when you bury the dialog beneath other windows
and want to close its parent.  Your only option is to minimize or close otehr
windows until you find the lost dialog.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

It looks as if dependent windows aren't getting the WS_POPUP style I expected.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

But that doesn't fix it :-(

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Rod Whiteley]

Reproduced in Firefox 1.5 beta 1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US;
rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4) and also in Sunbird 0.2+ (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050927 Mozilla Sunbird/0.2+).

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Rod, can this be close?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM for tools>options
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1pre) Gecko/20090928 Namoroka/3.6b1pre