build id: 1999060908 platform: RH Linux 5.2 to reproduce: go to a page that has drop-down menus on it (eg bugzilla). on the page, click on a disclosure triangle to drop down a menu. release the mouse button. now, move the cursor up and down the list. result: nothing happens visually. expected result: as the cursor passes over menu items, the menu items should be highlighted to indicate that clicking there will select that value.

Is this just drop-downs in HTML forms? If so, that would be karnaze, cc'ing him

Whoops, I meant to say drop-downs in HTML forms only.

okay, reassigning to karnaze@netscape.com

Reassigning to Ramiro.

pavlov, this is a grab problem. if the grabs were setup properly, like the native gtk combo box does, for instance, it would work. reassign to pavlov.

Rod, Combo boxes need to call CaptureRollupEvents after the popup window is shown. Can you move this call to some place after that window is shown so that this will work?

Just a comment: some combo boxes do capture the mouse, generally when they are within an HTML document. However, no combo boxes in the "Preferences" dialog nor any "wizard" dialog (like the mail account setup) seem to grab it. Particularly, the Bugzilla query page mentioned works just fine (Nov 8th build under Debian, GTK+ 1.2.6).

changed to M14

moving to M15

Is this really hard to do? It seems like this should just take a few minutes to do. This is a usability problem on UNIX for all combo boxes, the same as if the menus didn't go away when you clicked somewhere else on the screen. I really think this should be fixed for beta.

I no longer experience this problem. Marking WORKSFORME.

this has not been fixed.

This bug blocks beta1 bug 26273.

Marking PDT+

As described in the very top comment, I can click, release on the button and when I move the mouse over items in the dropdown they highlight properly. Clicking and holding down the mouse works also. Pav, if you think this still doesn't work, please describe exactly what you think doesn't work.

click in a combo box. then click completly outside mozilla's window. the combo box should go away. the reason the call to CaptureRollupEvents() fails to do the right thing on linux is because the window is not visiable when it is called.

waqar, could you look at this PDT+ bug?

Ok this only happens if you click outside the Mozilla App. I am not sure at this point that the mozilla is getting the mouse events?

yes. it is because the call to CaptureRollupEvents gets made before the popup window is made visible. All that needs to be done is the call to CaptureRollupEvents needs to be moved to right after the Show occurs.

reassigning to me.

checked in fix

VERIFIED fixed with 2000021416