29696 - timeouts don't fire in my custom build

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Overview Description: 

Timeouts/intervals don't fire in my custom builds.  This means that when I press
and hold the mouse button on the scrollbar the thumb only jumps one time; when I
click on a menu and scroll down to an item with a submenu the submenu doesn't
pop up after a short interval, although clicking on the item brings it up; and
when I create a simple test case with a javascript window.setTimeout() call, the
code specified in the call never runs.

window.setTimeout("alert('this alert never appears.');", 1000);

Note that this bug does not appear in the latest nightly builds.  Nightly builds
I have downloaded for the last several days have all been fine.  It only appears
on the custom builds I have been compiling each day.

I downloaded the source a few months ago and have been building it with "gmake
-f client.mk".  I did "cvs up client.mk" per the recent newsgroup post in
n.p.m.builds, and yesterday I did "cvs -z3 checkout -PA SeaMonkeyAll" to make
sure I really had the latest code.  The browser window lists the build as
2000-02-27-08.

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 

Built today, 2000-02-29.

Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: 

A bunch of recent nightly builds, f.e.2000-02-27-09, 2000-02-26-09,
2000-02-25-08, all on Linux.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: test case with setTimeout in it

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Marking testcase and M17.

Comment 3

[joki (gone)]

This is not a bug, its a problem in your local build environment or a stale file 
I would guess.  Personally I'd suggest killing your tree and pulling an entirely 
fresh one.  Or hit up the netscape.public.mozilla.builds newsgroup for 
assistance.

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I pulled a fresh tree a few weeks ago and continued to experience this problem. 
I am planning to go to the newsgroup for assistance but haven't done it yet.  In
the meantime, I'll pull another fresh tree and try it once again.

Comment 5

[Brent Metzler]

If it works in the nightly, thats all that matters...