365657 - escape doesn't cancel main window resizing using triangle in lower-right corner

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Daniel B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5

Normally, window resizing can be canceled by typing an escape character.

However, that only works when resizing by part of the window frame.

Specifically, when resizing using the triangle in lower-right corner
(at least in a browser window), typing escape does not cancel resizing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click and drag somewhere on a browser window's frame to begin resizing the 
   window.
2. Press Esc and notice that resizing is cancelled--the window returns to its
   previous size.
3. Click and drag on the little triangle of lines in the lower-right corner to
   being resizing window.
4. Press Esc and notice that this time resizing is NOT cancelled.
Actual Results:  
See step 4.

Expected Results:  
Resizing should have been canceled the same as it was in step 2.

Comment 1

[Daniel B.]

Seems related to bug 185533 (and possibly bug 208959).

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

SeaMonkey v1.0.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 3

[Daniel B.]

> Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Yes.  Easily.  Did you even try to reproduce it on v1.1.9?

Daniel

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008061601 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

WFM. I guess this was fixed-on-trunk somewhere.

Comment 5

[Mardeg]

It took a while for me to confirm that this is a core bug on windows-only, and *only* when you position the mouse exactly on the triangle. When I was less exact and had the mouse on the actual bottom-right corner of the border the escape does actually work.

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

WFM on Vista

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Does not WFM on XP

Comment 7

[[not reading bugmail]]

Testing this with latest Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090824 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

WFM: 

Pressing escape while resizing/dragging from any browser border edge will return the browser in previous state (ie WFM in general).  

Doesn't WFM: (which is where I believe this bug description lies and not in the above scenario)

Pressing escape after trying to resize/drag from triangle position (not window border) on the square/gripping triangle area in the lower-right doesn't work. 

Which begs the following questions: 

1) Is this bug XP only?  Doesn't appear to be.
2) Is it just triangle area doesn't work on Windows in general?  Seems to be.
3) Is this a regression?  Seems like it from Seamonkey
4) or intention change?   Maybe - to standard FF to other Windows Apps?
5) Was it only in Seamonkey as a feature?  Dunno, hard to say if FF ever had it.
6) Is it more apparent on a borderless window?  Maybe, since borders WFM.
7) How many people notice this?   Probably few, if any.
8) Is this a polish bug?  Seems like it given the state of Windows and Apps in general


I think I remember it used to work way back when maybe using Netscape Communicator Suite 2001-2002 on Windows ME/98SE was around, (ie Seamonkey, which I thought died to the grave after FF came out, doh!).

Comment 8

[[not reading bugmail]]

Maybe this is anywhere we use Windows Classic/Basic theming.  Jim, any chance we'll get this out in 1.9.2 or 2.0?

Comment 9

[[not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Maybe this is anywhere we use Windows Classic/Basic theming.

--> er, non Aero Glass.

Comment 10

[[not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > Maybe this is anywhere we use Windows Classic/Basic theming.
> 
> --> er, non Aero Glass.

Lets try this again.  The status bar is being removed for Fx 4, but looks to be including the resizer to the addon bar instead - see bug 489303 for more.

Comment 11

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

We no longer display a resizer.