52235 - mailcompose address fields confusing on linux

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[R.K.Aa.]

2000091108 linux

-Adress fields in mailcompose are initially too far to the right.
(approx one centimeter of white space before where the cursor will actually  blink.)

-When typing in an address and then hitting enter, the first field vanishes up
in nothingness
and is never seen again (unless you have a scrollmouse OR key in so many
addresses that a scrollbar
appears, which will first happen if three or more addressees are filled in.)

-IF you have a scrollmouse and scroll up, the first field will again appear BUT:
It has now moved to the left,  compensating for more than the one centimeter it
was too far to the right,
and the buttons to select To: with etc. are now clipped short on the right side.

-The lack of a visible adressee is by far the worst about this bug;
users without scrollmice can't visually control whether they have actually
filled in the first address or not when sending to two recipients,
and it is not at all intuitive that one can scroll in a field without a visible
scrollbar.

-The clipping error also occurs when recipient number three has been filled in
and one uses the scrollbar that then is created.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Attachment: evidense, jpg, 59451 byte

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

the behaviour has changed completely over the past builds
there are heaps of error messages, but all different from this bug.
setting WFM.

the new errors when selecting and deleting text in address fields are

_awSetFocus failed, try it again...
_awSetFocus failed, try it again...
_awSetFocus failed, forget about it!
JavaScript error:
 line 0: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Illegal value"  code: "-2147024809"
nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "<unknown>"]

Comment 3

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Linux (2000-09-19-08 M18)
Win32 (2000-09-19-09 M18)
Mac (2000-09-19-09 M18)
this problem has been fixed.