363187 - Command keys (copy/paste/select all) do not work until after Edit menu has been used once

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 382138

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

This problem present in version 3 alpha 1 (20061208) on Mac.

The problem is that the command keys for things such as Edit->Cut, Edit->Copy, Edit->Paste, Edit->Select All (or in Main view, Edit->Select->All) do not work until the Edit menu has been used once with the mouse.

To reproduce:

- Quit and restart Thunderbird
- Click a mailbox in the Folders pane. (Choose a mailbox that contains some messages)
- Click In the message list, highlighting one of the messages
- Press Command-A, expecting Thunderbird to highlight all messages in the listing (TOC)
- Note selection does not change.
- Select Edit->Select->All
- Now all the messages are selected
- Click on ONE of the messages to un-select-all
- Press Command-A
- This time all the messages are selected

It appears that the command key for Edit-Select->All does not work until the Edit menu has been accessed using the mouse.

Similar problems exist for Cut, Copy, Paste. For example:
- Quit and restart Thunderbird
- Preview (or open) a message
- Highlight some text in the body
- Press Command-C to COPY the text
- Note the Edit menu did not flash to indicate an action
- New message
- Click in Body of message
- Press Command-V to PASTE
- Note that the text you tried to copy is not pasted. Instead, any text you happened to already have on the clipboard is pasted instead

- Quit/restart Thunderbird
- Preview or open a message
- Highlight some text in body
- Select Edit->Copy
- New message
- Click in body
- Select Edit->Paste
- This time the text you copied IS pasted, as you copied using the Edit menu instead of Command-C

Similar problem for 'select all' in that select all in the message body does not work until the Edit menu has been accessed via the mouse. Reproduce using similar steps as above.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Matt, does it still fail if you use trunk version from today?  

Comment 2

[Matt Dudziak]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Matt, does it still fail if you use trunk version from today?  
> 

I just tested with "version 3 alpha 1 (20070226)" and the problem still exists. 

I must first used Edit->Select->All before Command-A will select all in a message listing (TOC)

I must first use Edit->Copy before Command-C will work to copy selected text.

etc.

Basically, once I have used the menu item, the command-key will work, but not before that.

Matt

Comment 3

[John Johnston]

I have just upgraded to the trunk from v2 and I ran into this bug. It's hard to believe that this hasn't had a comment since February. Any idea on a fix?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Interesting - I don't see any obvious Mac-only bugs residing in editor or selection components created after 2006-10-08.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That's because it's a Widget: Cocoa bug (which, apparently, nobody's going to fix, but if I have to hack around it, I'm doing the hackaround in that bug, too).