Closed Bug 20093 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Menus popup and text boxes accept ALT-keypress

Categories

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18844

People

(Reporter: davet, Assigned: leger)

Details

(Keywords: verifyme)

After hitting the Alt key (which I use as Meta), Mozilla seems to store the Alt-press until I hit another key which corresponds to a menu shortcut key. Personally I would rather it didn't store the alt press, and required Alt+F, rather than Alt, then an F (if you see what I mean?), at least for the Linux version (I know it would be expected under Windows). But that's not all, if you're in a text/input box, then hit Alt, the next keypress will go to the input box. If the key happens to correspond to a menu, the text is put in the input box AND pulls down the menu. For example, if you are ina text box, and hit ALT, then M, the 'm' goes to the text box, but no menus are activated, if you then hit F, 'f' goes in the box, and the File menu appears. As I said, I think the ALT shouldn't be sticky, but that's just my opinion.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Component: Browser-General → Event Handling
QA Contact: leger → janc
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
The ALT-key should be sticky for activating the menubar when typing anywhere that typing is allowed in Win32 -- I'm not sure about Linux, but I suspect it would depend on your Window Manager (I'd expect this with fvwm95, for instance). On the other hand, if the ALT key moves focus to the menubar, all further keypresses should go to the menubar *only* until this is countermanded, *not* appear in both the menubar and edit field. This is not so much a matter of "storing" ALT keypresses as having keypress events after an ALT affect both the menubar and the original area of focus. This is a duplicate of bug 18844. Changing Component from "Browser-General" to "Event Handling" and setting QA Contact for verification. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18844 ***
Keywords: verifyme
Marking Verified of a dup of a dup...;-) http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22782
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling
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