388559 - cursor not visible when creating new e-mail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Roman Stanec]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071801 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071801 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Cursor don't show up when I move (USING TAB key!) to the body of the email I'm going to write.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fill out e-mail address of the recipient
2. press <TAB>
3. fill out the subject of the e-mail
4. press <TAB>
5. now you are able to write the e-mail (but the cursor remains hidden until you click with the mouse into the mail's body part window).


Expected Results:  
the cursor should be visible even when I move to the mail's body with the <TAB> key

Comment 1

[Lewis Rosenthal]

I'm seeing this, too on:

Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/200707030909 MultiZilla/1.9.0.0k SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

However, for me, it doesn't matter whether I tab or click; there's simply no cursor. Different issue? I can't tell. I also realize that my build is older than yours (build bustage on OS/2 - I think - after 7/3).

Comment 2

[Joseph Yadacus]

This problem is definite. I can reproduce it every time. Only fails when the TAB key is used to get to the text area.

Comment 3

[John]

Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)
Mozilla Firefox - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Cursor is not appearing when I attempt to send a message.  I only noticed it for the first time today 01/04/08.

This occurred when a Screen Capture Program (Snippy) was utilized to insert a copy of my screen into an outgoing e-mail.  Everything else appears normal.

(WinXP Home, 1.5 Gig Ram, 2 Hard Drives [80 & 160 Gigs] Pentium 4 PC.

Comment 4

[Luc Vander Borght]

I have the same problem no cursor when typing text. I use gmail.
When checking the error I get numerous error messages.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Confirming, not because I see this bug but because several people do.

Moving to Core as it affects both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Confirming, not because I see this bug but because several people do.
> 
> Moving to Core as it affects both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.

Lewis, Roman, Tony, can you check that you see this in SM trunk?


xref bug 286644

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Confirming, not because I see this bug but because several people do.
> > 
> > Moving to Core as it affects both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.
> 
> Lewis, Roman, Tony, can you check that you see this in SM trunk?
> 
> 
> xref bug 286644

Comment 8

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Wow... This is a golden oldie, huh?

No, I am not seeing this anymore. On OS/2, the issue was something else (it affected the browser, as well, requiring a workaround of clicking outside the window, and then clicking in the application again). I don't know (in retrospect) that the appearance of this behavior on OS/2 was even related to this. Now, when I *do* see something similar, it's usually because the system is busy, and the cursor simply comes back when the CPU goes idle again.

There were/are other issues with mouse pointer under OS/2, and these are addressed in the readme for the OS/2 builds (essentially, SET MOZ_ACCELERATED fine tuning).

On trunk (on Linux), I am not seeing this.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

In reply to comment #7:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 SeaMonkey/2.19a1 ID:20130220003044 c-c:3225c78eb19b m-c:401b967b2dfc

After step 4 of comment #0, the text cursor is immediately visible for me as a blinking | in the body area of the email being composed.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thank you both!
WFM also.
If anyone still see this please comment