71196 - Pressing 'Enter' in dialogs with a default button should activate the focused and not the default button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63728

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[ajbu]

Pressing the Enter/Return key in a dialog with a default button, and focus on 
another button activates the default button. This should activate the button 
with focus.

From the Microsoft books online:
"The design of Windows dialog boxes includes the concepts of the default button 
and the cancel button. The default button is activated when the Enter key is 
pressed and the control that currently has the focus is not itself a button. In 
other words, when a button has the focus, pressing the Enter key triggers that 
button. The cancel button is similar but simpler: when the Esc key is pressed, 
whatever button is marked as the cancel button is activated. Esc always affects 
the cancel button regardless of what control has the focus."

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We also get this wrong on OS/2 apparently (see bug 70958)

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Attachment: very crude first stab at this on win and OS2

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK.  The attached patch changes Win and OS2 to be somewhat more similar to the
MS spec....

All that happens is that Enter triggers the currently focused one of those buttons.

This does not fix the general symptom of buttons not firing on enter when they
are focused.  It does not fix the general symptom of the "default" ring not
following focus when buttons are focused.

Also, I don't know what the behavior should be here on Mac and on Unix.  mpt?

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Hmmm. The old bug has a full spec, the new bug has a partial patch. Which to 
dup, which to dup? ... Well, I guess it's easier to copy over the URL for a 
patch than to copy over an entire spec ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63728 ***