36537 - marking messages as read after using ctrl-a to select fails horribly

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[justin hugh daly]

using a nightly build from today (20-apr-2000):

   1. in message pane, ctrl-a to select all messages
   2. message|mark|as read

fails...

however

   1. selecting top message
   2. shift-selecting bottom message to select all messages
   3. message|mark|as read

works!

Comment 1

[fenella]

Agree. I just tried it. The problem does exist.

Comment 2

[fenella]

I forgot to mention the build numbers
Linux (2000-04-20-09 M16) Using Alt-a on LInux to recreate the problem
Win32 (2000-04-20-09 M16) ctrl-a on Win32
Mac (2000-04-20-10 M16)using Option-a on Mac

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

With 2000-05-12-08, this seems to be working.  I did notice that we don't reflow 
after the change, so marking unread causes text to overlap due to the bold font 
being larger than the normal font.

Can we close this WFM?

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

I can protect against this from happening.  There appears to be an extra item 
put in the selected list when you do Select All vs doing shift-click from top to 
bottom. This is causing an exception in one of my functions and preventing the 
operation from taking place.

I'm going to nominate this as nsbeta2 because I think many operations might fail 
after doing selectall. Delete also fails for example.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

I have a fix for this that protects against null ptrs.  After I check in the fix 
I will reassign this as a tree bug.

Comment 7

[David Hyatt]

if its a bug in the tree code, though, don't close this out.  give it to me 
after your workaround goes in.

Comment 8

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix. 

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

It looks like this got fixed with the new tree widget landing.  Marking fixed
since I saw this not working.

Comment 10

[fenella]

Linux (2000-06-29-08 M16)
Win32 (2000-06-29-09 M16)
Mac (2000-06-27-11 M16)
This problem has NOT been fixed yet.
Reopen this bug

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

this is working perfectly for me on my Windows release build.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

Marking WORKSFORME again.  Fenella and I saw this working on her Linux machine 
and she will verify the other platforms again.

Comment 13

[fenella]

Linux (2000-07-05-08 M17)
Win32 (2000-07-05-09 M17)
Mac (2000-07-03-10 M17)
In these builds, the problem does not fixed.  Verified it as fixed.