298609 - Crash when dragging files from open email to another email window

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Christian Nichols]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
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Thunderbird crashes when files from an open email are dragged onto the window of
another composed email.  You must drag them onto the app bar since the composed
email is usually hidden or minimized.  Mistakenly dragging over another
application or window and back either crashes Thunderbird or causes the drag
operation to stop.  This makes dragging files to other applications or emails
very difficult.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Drag the files to the app bar and over the new email.
** Note that the save dialog opens at this point but ignore it.  I'm not sure
why it opens on a drag operation
Now drag over another window button and back and forth to composed email.
thunderbird will crash with a NPE either right away or within a few seconds.
Actual Results:  
thunderbird crashes with an NPE or drag operation is cancelled unexpectedly.

Expected Results:  
I should be able to drag the files to another email and onto the Attach Files
area to be send.

thunderbird 1.0.2 with Windows 2000 SP4

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Does the Talkback agent open when you crash? If yes, can you send such a
talkback report and open talkback.exe in your components folder (in your
Thunderbird program folder) and give use the Talkback ID of this crash?

Comment 2

[Christian Nichols]

No talk back does not open.  One crash simply closed the window with no dialog
at all.  Another crash showed a message box:

thunderbird.exe
code at 0x00000000 executed instruction 0x00000000

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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