Pavlov says nsWindow->update is repainting the whole screen every time the selection gets touched. Mjudge says it should only be calling it with the rect which needs to be repainted to show selection highlighting (actually that would be several rects, for the last selection going away and the new selection coming in, I would assume). Filing this as a reminder to look at it and compare Linux with Windows when I have both builds available. Not sure if this is PP or not, need to find out what Windows does.

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

This is an XP bug; we still don't know yet why it's repainting the whole screen every time, but it's definitely happening on both Linux and the Mac (we're guessing that it does the same thing on Windows but that painting is highly optimized for that platform so it's not obvious to the eye).

Most likeley the problem is due to the fact it is calling nsIWidget->Update() instead of nsIWidget->Invalidate() with a rect. Update is supposed to redraw the entire widget, whereas Invalidate with a rect should just redraw the portion you tell it to. (unless i'm missing something ovbious here)

On Windows, only the frame in which selection change are being redrawn. On Mac & Linux, the entire screen is being redrawn -- you can see this in builds with double buffering off.

Could someone in the xpfe group, who understands when we're supposed to be calling Invalidate() vs. Update(), please look at this?

Rod, could you field this one?

per leger, assigning QA contacts to all open bugs without QA contacts according to list at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

anyone know the status of this one? possibly part of #3289?

Windows and Mac only repaint the frame in which selection changes, not the entire screen. If linux is repainting the entire screen, then that's a different bug to 3289 (which is XP).

i think this is a duplicate of 3289 (at this point) and can be closed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3289 ***

verified duplicate

Moving all Widget Set bugs, past and present, to new HTML Form Controls component per request from karnaze. Widget Set component will be retired shortly.