308703 - No Flash Asian/Japanese IME input on OS X Mozilla if move focus outside app and back. Mozilla Type-And-Find bug: "Find stopped", "link not found"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alvin Liuson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

When inputting Japanese IME in Flash input textfield then move focus outside 
of the browser window then back, you can no longer input text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open up a Flash movie in Mozilla that includes an input textfield.
2.  Input some Japanese text using the IME
3.  Click on the desktop/finder.
4.  Click back into the Flash input text field.
5.  Try to type Japanese

Actual Results:  
No text is accepted (no floating input window comes up).  I can see the 
characters in the center of the Mozilla bottom vertical bar (the characters 
appear in Japanese).  When I hit enter, as I would do to tranfer the chars 
from a regular IME to Flash, that Mozilla bar says, "Find stopped." Or, it 
says "Link not found: "j character here"".


Expected Results:  
Floating window comes up, receives chars, and chars get into text field 
accurately.

Regarding this, Peter L. at Netscape says, "Sounds like a focus issue. Try 
clicking in the form field again to make Flash active. When you get the "link 
not found" or "Find stopped" message, that's our Type-And-Find feature which 
finds and highlights hyperlinks in the page based on what you type when the 
document has focus."

Unfortunately, no amount of re-clicking on the Flash content makes this Type-
And-Find go away. I must click on the browser window outside the Flash 
content, and then return to the Flash content.

The problem is that Mozilla is not giving Flash keyDowns in this case.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to Firefox bug 262387?

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

Reporter -- can you still reproduce this bug?

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(1.5 years later)

No reply from reporter,
which did not even wrote which product/version he was using.

(Would have been "Incomplete", now is) R.Invalid