98070 - Menulist blocks access to menu

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

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Steps to reproduce problem:
1. Compose a new message
2. Focus the To: and change it to CC:
3. While the CC: has focus press Alt+F
4. While the CC: has focus press Alt, Down
Actual results: Beep at Step 3. Both menu and menulist open at step 4.

Expected resutls: Step 3 and Step 4 both solely open the menu.

Comment 1

[Oliver Klee]

WFM on 2001083103 Win2k.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

menulist and alt key fun --> hyatt

Comment 3

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

WFM Win98 2001100903

Reporter: Feel free to reopen if you see this on new builds.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

I see it on build 2001100903 itself, both Win95 and Win98, so there!

Comment 5

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

I'm not seeing anything unusual either.  Can you create a screenshot after steps
3 and 4, please?

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Screenshot after step 4

Comment 7

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Reporter:  I am still unable to reproduce this testcase, even in the classic skin.

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011027

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 9

[Alexander Opitz]

I can see the bug with 2002040403 on Win95, the steps to see it are a little bit
other as described.

1. Start composing new Message
2. Click on the box to select a from adress or on the box to select to/cc/bcc/..
3. open with mouse (2 clics) or shortcut keys (p.e. alt+f) one of an overlapping
window (best is the file menu).
4. walk throug the menu with the arrow down key.

Now the before opened box opens again and shows on top.

Should be resolved before future :-)
Reproduceable every time.

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I see this on Linux with the steps from comment #9.

Comment 11

[Andreas Kunz]

I can also reproduce it with the original steps on Win2k.
(Only mentioning it to 1) re-confirm it for Win and 2) confirm that the original
steps also lead to the problem.)

Comment 12

[Alexander Opitz]

Bug still exists. Focusing problem?

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Ok, so what's going on is this:

When the menubar is active, it captures all events, and uses the down event
(amongst others) to navigate the menus.

However, this event is still propogated to the menulists's frame, which reacts
to this event by opening the menulist. The menulist also attempts to capture
events to navigate the menulist but this is inhibited by the menubar's capture.

Unfortunately the down event is erroneously flagged by the window's scroll logic
so that it cannot reliably be ignored :-(

Comment 14

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*** Bug 163703 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***