31112 - Focus Grab problem: Moz-based Solaris webclient steals focus.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java APIs to WebShell, defect, P3)

Description

[edburns]

Reproducible: ALWAYS

To reproduce:

1. Build and run webclient on Solaris.

2. Click in the URL text field and start typing, any text will do.

3. While typing, move the mouse into the web page area.

4. You'll find that the focus is stolen from the text field.  This is a major 
usability problem.

Comment 1

[edburns]

Just for kicks, adding the HELP_WANTED status word.

Comment 2

[rpallath]

Added Geetha to CC list

Comment 3

[Torgeir Veimo]

I have a simpler wrapper that wraps IE and an url text field has the same
problem. I don't think this is limited to mozilla, but rather a JTextField focus
bug. 


The problem seem to be that even if the text field gets events, eg. a mouse
click to bring focus back to it, one has to select some other java component first.

Simply using a heavyweight TextField instead of a lightweight JTextField makes
the problem go away. 

I hope that the new focus manager in jdk1.4 will solve this problem.

Comment 4

[Ashu Kulkarni]

In Webclient we are using a heavyweight AWT component TextField and not the 
Swing JTextField. We are seeing the problem because of the way Motif (peer 
components on Solaris for Java AWT) interacts with the Gtk components in 
Mozilla.

Comment 5

[Alexei V. Mokeev]

Changing QA contact

Comment 6

[Vladimir Strigun]

This bug still reproduced on Solaris 2.8 with nightly mozilla & webclient.
Add me to cc list.

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

Resummarizing, to more accurately dscribe problem

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ed, still a problem?

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is this still a problem? If so, please reassign to someone on your team, otherwise mark it WORKSFORME.