Closed Bug 50220 Opened 24 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Selected item should remain selected after column sorting in tree

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Future

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: janv)

Details

Build ID: 2000082408

If you select an item in a tree with columns that can be sorted, and then sort 
by a column, the item is no longer selected.
Actually, this works mac/win32 for today's build in the mailnews threadPane.
However, the selection is lost in the tree for History or Bookmarks.

So Dave, is this something that specific apps are doing|not doing, or is the
difference in behaviour something that the tree is not doing right. (My guess
is the former).
This could either be done in RDF, or worked around at the app level, as mail
already does.  ->waterson for consideration.
Assignee: hyatt → waterson
rjc: thoughts? should the XUL sort service do this? It wouldn't break my heart
if you future'd or wontfix'd this.
Assignee: waterson → rjc
Target Milestone: --- → Future
In addition to keeping the item selected, the tree should scroll to the new 
position of the selected item (or one of them if multiple items are selected).
Hi, Ben!
Assignee: rjc → ben
I just submitted a patch for bug <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=244398">bug 244398</a>
that could be applicable for this bug as well!
Assignee: bugs → Jan.Varga
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.trees
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees → XUL
QA Contact: xptoolkit.trees → xptoolkit.widgets
I don't think anyone is going to work on this given the plan to remove XUL tree widget in bug 1446335.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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