75610 - modal dialog windows do not draw properly upon resize

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

BUILD: linux 2001-04-11-08

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1)  Get the browser to pop up a modal dialog.  Examples:
    a)  Password dialog in mailnews
    b)  BasicAuth password dialog in the browser
    c)  PSM's "new certificate" dialog
    
    Item (c) can be gotten at https://www.rsiaa.org/rsiauth/cgi-bin/home.pl

2)  Attempt to resize the dialog to make it bigger.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
Dialog resizes and draws the newly visible area with whatever content was hidden
or just with the background.

ACTUAL RESULTS:
Dialog resizes and does not draw the newly visible area -- this area still shows
whatever was in it before the dialog was resized (usually a piece of the window
that was below the dialog).

This makes it impossible to access parts of the content if the dialog is not
sized correctly and in cases like bug 75596 this makes it impossible to close
the modal dialog.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

i'd call this mozilla0.9, but with the cutoff being close...

Comment 2

[Sam Rowe]

*** Bug 78180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 79295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to hyatt since this is not really Ben's area of work...

Comment 5

[John Morrison]

Hmm, modal windows don't reflow their contents? Sounds more like danm's thang.
(still the case in current 05/07 builds)

Comment 6

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 75596 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 75615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 76613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 78615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[John Morrison]

No, the above are not duplicates. This bug is about the generic problem
with resizing modal dialogs and reflowing contents.

The bugs that were marked duplicate concern a specific dialog with PSM that
is using a fixed size, and appending more text after the window has been 
sized, which causes contents to be placed "outside" the dialogs borders
(where the problem is worse when using larger fonts).

This is all detailed in those other bugs, and this bug was filed for the 
generic problem.

Comment 11

[John Unruh]

*** Bug 80477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

*** Bug 81442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Tom Mraz]

The new server certificate is no more modal and the other two dialogs reflow
properly on resize. WFM. Linux 2001062021

Comment 14

[Eric Hedström]

The new non-modal dialog box comes up *behind* the main window in windows2000.
So the main window just sits there throbbing unless you know to move the browser
window to interact with the dialog.

I suppose that's more a symptom of bug 45805 than anything, though.

Comment 15

[Aaron Solochek]

Resize also works for me.

However the "The name on this certificate doesn't match the computer" warning
still is initially too small to see the buttons.

that is linux build 2001060713, 1400x1050 resolution.