360276 - MenuItems in Java Choice component cut off only using Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Mickey Segal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Using Sun Java and the Mozilla Firefox browser on Windows XP, some of the MenuItems in a Choice get cut off when displayed at 800 x 600 resolution.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure Firefox has Java installed.  
2. Set the display to 800 x 600 resolution.  At this resolution, open Firefox.  
3. In the applet displayed on www.segal.org/java/choice_cut/, click the Choice component and try to get to select "Item 100". The source code for the applet is also given below.
Actual Results:  
You can only scroll far enough to see "Item 96" and select "Item 97".

Expected Results:  
You should be able to get to "Item 100".

1. The cutting problem happens both in Firefox versions 1.5.0.8 and 2.0.
2. The cutting problem happens with all Sun Java versions tested: 1.5 release 9, 1.6 release candidate, and 1.7 build 02.
3. There is no cutting using the same Java versions in Internet Explorer 7.
4. Using this particular applet the Choice component is not cut off at screen resolutions higher than 800 x 600.


Source code for the Java applet:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class choice_cut extends Applet {

public void init() 
{
    setBackground(Color.gray);
    Choice choice = new Choice();
    choice.setFont(new Font("Serif", Font.BOLD, 19));
    for (int i=0; i<101; i++) choice.addItem("Item " + String.valueOf(i) + " ");
    add(choice);
}
} // END OF Class choice_cut

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2 abd the latest Java? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Mickey Segal]

The problem is still present with latest versions of the relevant software:
Java 1.7 build 14
Firefox 2.0.0.4
Windows Vista Business

Comment 3

[Mickey Segal]

The problem is still present with latest versions of the relevant software:
Java 1.7 build 24
Firefox 3 beta 2
Windows Vista

Comment 4

[aravindm]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2.
It works for me. Please see if you can reproduce in the latest nightly.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 5

[Mickey Segal]

I still see the bug in Firefox 3.6.3 with Java 1.6.0_19, the latest released versions, and a version that seems later than the one that Aravind Madabushi lists.  I haven't tested with Java 1.7 monthly builds or with with Gecko nightly builds, but it is still there in current release versions.

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

Every NPAPI based browser I have tried shows the same issue. (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) This is a Oracle Java bug and they have accepted it. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6494419