511478 - regression: textbox with type="autocomplete" and searchSession="addrbook" is not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Simon Vaillancourt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/2.0.0.18 X-ORACLE-DEBUG=STATS (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090818 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b4pre

The following xul element used to work as expected with thundebird 2, it does not seem to work anymore with tb3:

<textbox flex="1" id="someid1" type="autocomplete" searchSessions="addrbook"/>



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the attached addon
2. Add a user to the local address book
3. Try to type in the user name in the textbox
Actual Results:  
No autocompletion is done

Expected Results:  
User retrieved from the addressbook

Comment 1

[Simon Vaillancourt]

Attachment: addon used to reproduce the bug

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Sorry, but we replaced the old style with a new one, you'll need to update your extension to use the new version. There's an example here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Address_Book_Examples#How_do_I.c2.a0set_up_autocomplete_to_use_the_address_book.3f

I suggest in future you first ask on the mozilla.dev.extensions or mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird newsgroups/mailing lists about differences such as these - there have been a lot of changes since TB 2.