97608 - No keyboard shortcuts for buttons on javascript console

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Error Console, defect, P3)

Description

[Jonathan Baron]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010817
BuildID:    2001081715

The buttons on the console cannot be controlled
from the keyboard alone.  (At least I can't figure
out how to do it.)  This is not a major bug but a
very nice missing feature.  (Some buttons have
underlined letters, such as File, but alt-F or ctrl-F
don't do anything.)  True of all builds I've tried.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tasks/Tools/JavaScript Console
2. try expected keyboard shortcuts such as alt-f
3.

Actual Results:  no response


Expected Results:  drop down menu or action (such as "clear")

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Confirming and marking NEW. The menubar (File, Edit, View, etc) hotkeys do work
for me, though I don't see a way of accessing the buttons through keyboard-alone.

Reporter: You may wish to try a more recent build to see if that helps with your
menubar problems: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

-> All/All

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I have no problem using the menus with Alt+letter, but it would be nice to see
the toolbar functionality from the menus, in a similar to editor's view toolbar,
possibly with accelerator keys. Plus there's lots of other keyboard navigation
missing, such as tabbing to the entry or scrolling through the error list.

Comment 3

[Robert Ginda]

javascript debugger != javascript console, over to xpapps

Comment 4

[Jonathan Baron]

I was asked to try a more recent build.  I've been advised never
to try "latest", so I tried 2001083016, the last one before latest.
Still has the same problems.  Ctrl-w doesn't even work to close
the window.  It is possible that it works on some platforms but not
others.  I am using Red Hat Linux 7.1.  Jon Baron

Comment 5

[Paul Chen]

You need to focus the javascript console window first (click anywhere in that
window), then alt works to select the menus, works under win32, sigh. Also, I
just tested macos x, and you also need to focus the window before key commands
(like command-w to close the window) work, double sigh.

-> hewitt since I think he's partly responsible for the js console, but I could
be wrong ;-)

Comment 6

[Jonathan Baron]

OK.  Alt-f works, etc.  But not
All Errors Warnings Messages | Clear
This is 0.9.4

Jon

Comment 7

[piers]

These all have keyboard shortcuts in 20021229. Fixed?

Comment 8

[Jonathan Baron]

Works for me now with 2003010505.  Yes.  Thanks (whoever did it).
Jon Baron (original reporter)

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

marking so.