Linux, viewer & apprunner. Links don't work, but instead print out debug reset selection has been called debug reset selection has been called

"debug reset selection has been called" is a message from the selection code (nsRangeList.cpp), and I thought it was annoying, too, and commented it out; whoever cared about it can uncomment it in his own tree. But the links-not-working problem isn't related to that debug message; something must have changed recently in the event handling, maybe mouse events over links aren't being passed to the right handler any more.

Tom, since it's event handling I'm changing the component and assigning it to you

Marking important.

setting (desired) target M3

Looked into this with akkana this afternoon. I have some clues but still trying to figure out the exact cause.

janc, can you check if this is Linux specific...I think so. But can you check Mar10 Win and Mac please?

3/10/99 build works fine on Win98, WinNT, and Mac PPC.

It looks to me like the x and y point for the event being computed in nsViewManager() has wrong values, this could lead to nothing hitting when we search for a link to follow. This could be because we don't have a native GetBounds() in nsWindow.cpp; the values we are getting looked wrong to me. I code a native GetBounds() and see if that fixes things.

Links turn green when I click on them, this implies that we've got the position right.

Hmmm, they don't for me, however. No click-on-me hand icon either... (I just pulled sources an hour ago).

With sources pulled this morning, links turn red when clicked (i.e., mouse down still works) but mouse up doesn't load the referenced page. It seems like the mouse down event works, but the mouse up event fails. Joki and I looked at this very briefly a few days ago and it was seeing the mouse up event as happening on a different widget from the mouse down event. Oddly, it seemed to be saying that the mouse down (which worked) was over an image whereas the mouse up (which didn't work) was over a link, which seems backward.

Linux/Solaris: links turn green in apprunner, red in viewer. AIX: syd isn't seeing any color, sounds like there's a position problem that's compounding this problem.

The huge x, y coordinates I was seeing are in twips, so not a problem...

joki is out until Saturday. The problem seems to have something to do with the mouse-down frame not matching the mouse-up frame, thus layout thinks this is not a click but a ? drag. Since we're failing this test, we don't get the link click.

Fixed. Reentrant focus event on Linux was interrupting mousedown processing. Working on long term issues but marking this fixed.

*** Bug 3288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

jan c, please verify with Mar16 build when out. Thanks!

VERIFIED-FIXED for linux apprunner (Mar16) although they are still slow as molasses...