RE: Seamonkey Win32 build (Apr07 03:27:00) In the mail Compose window, there is NO cursor focus, no blinking vertical bar and therefore unable to compose message in the Message Compose window Steps: 1. Execute apprunner.exe 2. Select Messenger from the Tasks menu 3. Click on New Msg to open the Compose window 4. Type text in the Address field, no problem. But I do not see a cursor focus or blinking vertical bar in the compose area. Actual result: No cursor focus, message compose area is NOT enabled. Unable to compose message. This problem did not exist in the previous builds. Expected result: should have a cursor focus and be able to enter text in the message compose window.

Fenella, even though there is no focus in the message body area of the compose window, can you still type text in there? cc: kostello in case this is ender-related. Scott, do you have this problem?

Yes, I have this problem. I can't type in the widget.

This is a regression from M3, and as such, is a M4 stopper. I'll go ahead and mark as such to get this bug on chofmann and leger's overall query radar. Jean-Francois, if this is not your bug, pls reassign accordingly. Thanks.

Lisa, No. I am NOT able to type any text at all. I did a right click in the body and type text, no response, no text appears at all.

FYI...Strange cases of reproducing this bug with today's build 1999040809. mscott and nbaca could type in the body on Win NT4.0 today, I still can't with Win95. nbaca can't when she switches to Win95 on her dual boot system using the same seamonkey build she used on NT 4.0. Scott P. and Fenella were both using NT 4.0 when they saw the bug.

I believe this is an editor bug with windows 95/98. I ran the editor test harness on a win 95 machine and was unable to enter text into their editor test bed. Jean-Francois, I hope you don't mind but I'm going to send this over to kostello so his team can take a look. If someone still sees this bug today with NT let me know. But the few NT machines we've tried today have worked. Win95 has been the trouble maker.

On Fenella's NT4.0 she still can't type text in Compose body with todays 1999040809 build. Scott P. how about you.

using my debug build that was updated right before lunch on NT 4.0 I can't type into the compose window.

Does Editor as a read only mode feature?

cc: sujay@netscape.com. Sujay, mscott's comments are: "I ran the editor test harness on a win 95 machine and was unable to enter text into their editor test bed." Do you know if there is an open bug on this in the Editor area already?

Fenella, since this bug happens on your system consistently, can you keep an eye out for it? When it's marked fixed and new builds are available, pls verify this bug from the mail compose window. Thanks.

This bug doesn't seems to occurs all the time for me. I am working in NT4.

RE: Win32 april 8 evening build (apr 08 10:41:00) This problem still exits in my machine, which is HP X86, family 6, 233 MHZ, 32 MB, 4GA. I will continue to monitor this problem in the next build.

on my NT box, using code from 4/8 at around 11:00pm, I cannot type into compose window. Looking in debugger, the editor constructor never even gets called. The editor testbed (apprunner -editor) works fine.

Steve Clark started to look into this bug. It turns out the editor is not getting constructed at all. Since typing in the editor testbed works, we are going to investigate to see if it doesn't have something to do with the XUL file.

jefft and I just looked at this. The manifestations are: 1. First compose window works fine; the editor gets intantiated, everything works. 2. Second or subsequent compose windows don't work; they use the same editor appcores that was instantiated the first time, but in the call to setContentWindow, the content viewer in the webshell obtained from that window is null, so DoEditorMode fails. I'm pretty sure this is not an editor problem. It might be either a side-effect of the massive webshell leakage (bug 4127), or some other appcores/XUL problem with the mail compose window. Reassigning to ducarroz.

OK, I looked at the xul code and based on what Simon is saying, this is a duplicate of 4668 which has hit me in other less important areas. Startup is being called from onload which we know from 4668 doesn't work correctly. I'm going to make this a duplicate of that bug and copy Simon's message into the other bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4668 ***

I think we are being too hasty here =). Simon, did you and Jeff try this out on a win98/95 machine? The bug we're trying to report is that BOTH the editor and the mail compose editor widget cannot be typed into on win95/98. I see buster also looked into this bug but only on NT. If the editor is DOA on win95/98 how can it be a mail bug? I do agree there may be a separate bug causing the problems we are seeing on NT that Scott P. marked this as a duplicate of (Bug #4668). I'm re-opening this bug. Can simon/buster or someone from the editor team verify the problem that the editor test bed doesn't work on win 95/98? I could be smoking something but on our QA machines it didn't work...

The bug that I marked this as a duplicate of is a timing bug. I can't even get the compose window to work the first time on my machine. If the Editor Appcore is using onload (which I haven't verified) they could just be getting lucky.

Okay Simon Scott and I just reproduced the problem with the editor test bed on Win95 and 98. I agree this could be a duplicate of the bug Scott marked it as. QA, when verifying the bug fix, we need to verify the editor and mail compose windows..... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4668 ***

Bug 4668 is marked with M5 target milestone. I've made a comment in that bug that we need it fixed for M4.

verifying as a duplicate then. Will track this issue in the other bug.