78581 - downloading: unable to click to edit Name field in Save file picker

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spun off from bug 27612. when doing a Save to Disk [via downloading/helper app
dialog], i get a Save file picker dialog with the title "Enter name of file to
save to..." unfortunately, i cannot seem to click to edit the Name textfield at
all --it even has a focus ring around it and selected. workaround: start typing
when everything is selected.

anyhow, steps:
1. click a link that'll bring up the Downloading [helper app] dialog.
2. select Save to Disk, then OK.
3. the Save file picker dialog appears: click in the Name field so that the
selection goes away and you get the blinking cursor there.
4. try to type.

result: menubar flashes, unable to enter text.

workaround: select the textfield's contents, then start typing.

not sure if this is really a toolkit issue --saari?

also noticed that i cannot enter a colon [to be sneaky and manually enter folder
paths] --is this by design? if not, should that be filed separately?

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Are you talking about the native file picker here?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

oops, i was running into the 31-char limit. sorry.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

and, for my other question: colon isn't allowed in the Mac native file picker
[expected], ie, users there shouldn't manually enter the path.