77447 - Splitter position not maintained when switching between account central and alt-3pane

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2001-04-24-08: Mac 9.04
Haven't tried win. Saw this problem on sairuh's linux system.

Overview: Alt-3pane using the Account Central page. Resize the splitter and it's
position is not maintained when switching from Account Central to the Alt-3pane.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to Preferences|Mail and Newsgroups and select the radio button for the
second window layout (aka Alt-3pane)
2. Exit/Restart and the message pane should take the entire width of the window.
3. Resize the splitter between the folder pane and the thread pane
4. Select the account level so that the Account Central page appears

Actual Results: The splitter will most likely jump to a different position. Try
resizing the splitter from the Account Central page, select the "Read Messages"
link and again the splitter does not maintain its new position.

Expected Results: After the position of a splitter is changed then that position
should remain when switching between the Account Central page and the alt-3pane.

Additional Information:
- It works as expected using the regular 3pane.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because the splitter should not appear to jump around.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

The good news is that it looks like when you go back to the folders it retains
its old position.  Marking nsbeta1-.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

not a stopper for eMojo. 

Comment 4

[djk]

I see something like this on moz build 20030313 Win98.

The splitter position *is* maintained when switching between Account Central and
alt-3pane, but the *state* of the splitter is not.  This is probably hampering
the fix for bug 63641.

David

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Proposed patch

Comment 6

[David E. Ross]

*** Bug 211345 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

When the window gets into this problem state (where it *should* have the message 
pane closed but it is open), the little arrows on the splitter point in the 
"click me to EXPAND" direction; clicking the splitter reverses the arrow 
direction but the window remains open.

Also, when in the problem state, the  View | Show/Hide | Message Pane  menu item 
is shown checked (consistent with the display), but selecting the item only 
reverses the direction of the arrows on the splitter point.  (The menu item is 
*still* checked at this point.)

This symptom is partially described in bug 211347.

Not only does the state occur when selecting an account, then a folder in the 
folder pane; it also occurs after reopening the mail window after closing it 
with the message pane hidden in the alt-3pane.

This symptom is described in bug 203289.

Comment 8

[David E. Ross]

*** Bug 211347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 193595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 203289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Oscar van Vliet]

Shouldn't the summary be changed to "splitter state" rather than "position"?
Please get this fixed, it is such an old bug. I try to get my mum into using
Mozilla but she's paranoid about virusses and wants the preview pane to stay
gone when she tells it to :). Advocacy through word-of-mouth, you know...

Comment 12

[Anthony DiSante]

I agree with the previous comment that this bug needs to be renamed (unless
there is an existing bug that better describes this problem?).

As of late 2003 (admittedly, two and a half years after the original bug
report)(HOLY ****, by the way), the message pane just doesn't stay hidden no
matter how many times you tell it to.  I'll hide it, then a few hours later
click on a mailbox/folder, and it pops back up.

I want to vote for this, but is this the right one to vote for as the "message
pane doesn't stay hidden" bug?

Comment 13

[Oscar van Vliet]

There's been a patch waiting for months.
Can we expect any movement in the near future?

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 199093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Edmund Lian]

*** Bug 225183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Anthony DiSante]

In case anyone's interested, I just installed Thunderbird 0.4, and this bug does
not exist there.  And since I'm tired of having browser crashes also crash my
email (since both are Mozilla), which results in incomplete communication with
my mailservers and subsequent re-downloading of hundreds of messages that I
already have downloaded, I think I'm just going to give up on Mozilla mail and
use Thunderbird instead.

Comment 17

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 233026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Chris]

*** Bug 255582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Ville Arkko]

*** Bug 258705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[[e-mail]]

This seems to work now but I can't remember when it was fixed.
It might have been bug 105542, but I'm not sure.

Comment 21

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm pretty sure that was it, Neil -- I checked today against the 1122 build and 
the symptom was still there; in 1130, it's gone.  Thanks!  Nice piece o' work in 
that bugfix.