522705 - in flex applications using arrow keys results in moving cursor two (2) characters when using wmode=opaque

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 497900

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[vbtwo31984]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091007 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Using the arrow keys in a Flex application (using latest Flash 10 plugin (10,0,32,18)) results in movement of the cursor inside text fields as if you pressed the arrow key twice. This also causes problems with any controls that require arrow keys for functionality (for example, lists where you can use up-down to select items, in this case it, skips one item and jumps to 3rd one as if you pressed down twice).

This problem only occurs when wmode is set to opaque, and doesn't occur when you don't set the wmode. This only occurs in Firefox 3.5 and does not occur in Firefox 3.0 or any other browser that I tried using the same Flash plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Flex app and set wmode to opaque
2. Type something in a TextInput and try moving cursor with arrow keys
Actual Results:  
The cursor will jump 2 characters at a time

Expected Results:  
Cursor should move 1 character at a time

Comment 1

[Josh Grauer]

I am also experiencing this problem with a Flex based application.  The arrow keys move two steps instead of one and the delete key deletes two characters instead of one.

Removing the wmode parameter resolves the problem.

Comment 2

[Anju]

I'm also experiencing the same issue, is there any workaround for this instead of not setting the wmode at all, or any other value except than wmode=opaque. 

We need to use this wmode=opaque setting for both IE/FF. So a resolution/workaround would help. 

Thanks !!!

Comment 3

[Michelle Sintov]

Thanks for the Flash Player bug report. Can you point me to a website that exhibits this problem?

We can check to see if this issue has been fixed. The latest Flash Player release, version 10.0.42, is available here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer

Also, Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 can be downloaded from here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Thanks for your help.

Comment 4

[Charles]

Duplicates 497900

Comment 5

[vbtwo31984]

I have created a simple test flex app that shows this bug.

Here is the page without using wmode which works correctly:
http://74.213.164.31/test/flex_firefox_bug/no_wmode.html

Here is the same exact flex app with the only change to the HTML to use wmode to opaque:
http://74.213.164.31/test/flex_firefox_bug/wmode_opaque.html

As you can see, with wmode set to opaque, using the arrow keys results in moving the cursor 2 characters in the text input, and also jumping 2 lines in the list. This problem is only in Firefox 3.5

And yes, this does look like it's a duplicate of 497900, so I guess this bug could be closed and I'll post this info in that bug report.