48693 - "Characters and Symbols" not working

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P4)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2000-08-10-09M18: NT4, Linux 6.0, Mac 9.04
Also a problem with the 8/11 builds.

Overview: In Composer or a New Message/Compose window the "Characters and 
Symbols" feature is not working correctly. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Composer
2. Witht he cursor in the body select Insert|Characters and Symbols. Notice
there are radio buttons displayed.
3. Keep the default radio button selected which is "Accent Uppercase", Letter 
'A" and Character "A" with an accent on top, select the Insert button

Actual Results: 
a. The symbol/character is not inserted in Composer. Try selecting the Letter 
"B" and again no symbol/character appears.
Workaround: Select the "Accent Lowercase" radio button, select Insert and a 
character appears in Composer. Now go back to the "Accent Uppercase" radio 
button and characters are inserted.

b. Also noticed that when the following radio buttons are selected then the 
"Letter" drop down appears disabled:
  - Other Uppercase radio button
  - Other Lowercase radio button
  - Common Symbols

Expected Results: 
a.Selecting the Insert button should automatically place what ever 
character/symbol is listed into the Composer window.
b. The "Letter" drop down box should be enabled for any radio button option 
selected.

Additional Information
- This worked using build 2000-08-09-08M18 build.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

I dont' know if this should be a seperate bug but I would also like the "Insert 
Character" dialog to remain open as I select the Insert button. This allows 
the option to insert many characters continuously without opening the window 
again. Then it should close the window after selecting the "Cancel" button (in 
the 8/9 build the button was called "Close").

Comment 2

[rubydoo123]

assigning to cmanske

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

I can't reproduce this. Unfortunately, once you use the dialog, it remembers
which "category", "letter" and "character" you last used, so when I use it,
I get that instead of the never-used default case. Hmmm.
Concerning other comments: 
"Letter" is disabled when it isn't needed or relavant, as with
the "other" and "symbol" categories -- there are no "letter with variations".
The initial implementation had a non-modal dialog that you could keep up,
but it was difficult to prevent user from closing the associated Composer 
window -- when that happens closing the Insert Character dialog crashes the 
app, so we postponed working on that problem.

Comment 4

[Charles Manske]

Inspected the code and found the culprit. Easy -- fix is in my tree.

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

changing priority. (bug is fixed in my tree.)

Comment 6

[Charles Manske]

Insert Character dialog is once again non-modal. Once launched from the Insert
menu, you can click on "Insert" button or just use "Enter/Return" key when
dialog has focus, and the character will insert into the associated Composer
window. It will close down automatically when the last Composer (or HTML Mail
Compose window) is closed. But if you have > 1 HTML Composers open (either
"web" or "mail), closing a composer will reassociate the Insert Character dialog
to another composer. Also, simply clicking in any Composer window to shift 
focus will change the Insert Character dialog association to work with the
last-focused Composer.

Comment 7

[sujay]

verified in 8/24 build.