Closed Bug 32177 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Mouse cursor leaving scrollbar in drop down list causes bad behaviour

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Form Controls
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26508

People

(Reporter: mmastrac, Assigned: waqar)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US; m14)
BuildID:    2000031615

If you attempt to scroll the list of a drop down box using the scrollbar, you
find that if the mouse happens to slip off the thumb, you start selecting on the
list as if you had dragged over it *but* the items selected aren't under the cursor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to URL http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html
2.  Click on the "component" drop down list and select the
3.  Click the scroll bar and keep the mouse button down
4.  Drag the scroll bar to the bottom and keep the button down
5.  Move the mouse cursor left until it reaches the contents of the list
6.  Drag up and down and watch the selection of items change as if you were
dragging over the lis	


Actual Results:  The selected item doesn't correspond to the item you drag over.  	

Expected Results:  The mouse should still be scrolling the scroll bar.  Moving
the mouse off shouldn't have any effect.

I don't know if this bug is simply related to not having the XPToolkit
scrollbars hooked up to dropdown lists.  The XP scrollbars work as expected on
other widgets.
changing component to HTML Form Controls, reassigning.
Assignee: trudelle → rods
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets → HTML Form Controls
QA Contact: jrgm → ckritzer
This *might* be fixed by fixing bug #26508.  Might want to check for resolution

after blizzard's patch is checked out.


Bug 26508 is now fixed. 
                                                                                            
mmastrac@ucalgary.ca - are you still seeing this problem on recent builds of 
Mozilla?

Gerv

waqar, it sounds like the bug blizzard is working on.
Assignee: rods → waqar
This was fixed by 26508, marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26508 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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