83146 - WizardStateMgr's persistent value is not overwriting checked="true" attrib when a page is loaded (radio buttons case)

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[racham]

In a wizard, If I have a page with a radio group and select one of the items and 
go the next page and come back to the page with radio buttons, the radio item 
selection is gone. The point to note here is that the radiogroup element still 
has the right value attribute. So, the UI to that affect is not updated.

Comment 1

[racham]

The side effect will be, if one of the items is set with the checked attribute 
to true..that item will always be selected as the UI simply follows that rule. I 
nstead I think the wizardmanager in a persistence mode for radio group should 
overwrite that attribute with the value it has.

Comment 2

[racham]

Adding wsm_persist (="true") attribute to each radio group items made the UI 
to persist with user selection.

So, here is the remaining issue.

If I make a radio item foo's checked attribute to "true" in the XUL file so that 
I don't need to do any special things in JS file to set the default. Say once 
the page is displayed I select radio item 'bar' and go forward in the wizard and 
come back again to the same page (with radio buttons). Then the seletion is 
back to 'foo', becauseof checked="true" on foo. So, is there any way to make the 
persistent value to overwrite the default once the user selection is made. 

To understand the picture better, you can substitute 'foo' with 'POP3' and 'bar' 
with 'IMAP' in the mail account wizard.

Changing the summary to reflect the above issue.

Comment 3

[racham]

Changing summary from question to the problem.

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

May God have mercy on us all. The 212 bug spam-o-rama is Now!

Comment 5

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

It'd be super-spiffy if you could convert whatever wizard you're using from 
WizardManager to the new Wizard stuff. I don't see myself getting to this soon, 
unless it's blocking some impending release. 

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]