604351 - Software keyboard on Android doesn't pop up when focus is in an input field.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:2.0b8pre)
Gecko/20101012 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b2pre 

Device Motorola Droid 2

Steps to reproduce:
1. close the hardware keyboard
2. place the device in portrait mode
3. go to url : http://www.google.com
4. click in the text box to bring up the VKB
5. bring up the left panel
6. close the panel
7. click in the text box to bring up the VKB once more

Expected result:
- The VKB appears

Actual result:
- The VKB doesn't pop up

Note: 
- it's a regression for Bug 580269; Bug 581535

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Seems exactly like a dupe of bug 601805

Comment 2

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

I don't think those are duplicate

Comment 3

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

Attachment: Patch

The problem is because the mouse events are not dispatched if the field is already focused by the form helper the VKB won't come up

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 483150 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Is this something we should fix in platform too? I am tempted to put a "// HACK" in the comment.

Comment 5

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mobile-browser/rev/9e11da194db1

Comment 6

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Love the "hack" usage. verified FIXED on builds:

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Namoroka/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b2pre

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

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