Priyansh Garg 6cfe10fef2 compose-box: Fix compose-box from covering last messages of stream. ...

While writing a long message in compose-box, the last few messages of
the current stream gets covered by the compose-box and it gets pretty
annoying sometimes trying to figure out a way to read the last message
of the stream while writing. Right now, the only way to get past this
is to resize `compose-textarea` by using the resize tool at the
bottom-right corner of the `compose-textarea`. But, that small resize
tool is not always readily visible to the user.

The proposed solution in this commit is to reset the `max-height`
property of `#compose-textarea` everytime `bottom_whitespace_height`
is resized such that the total height of `#compose` is always less
than or equal to the height of `bottom_whitespace_height`.  Doing
this, the compose-box never covers the last message of the current
stream.

The only problem with this is that if the compose-box is closed at the
time of bottom-whitespace resize, we cannot find the
`compose_non_textarea_height` and so, we cannot reset the max-height
of `#compose-textarea`. To solve this, max-height of
`compose-textarea` is also reset everytime a new compose-box is opened
according to the value of `bottom_whitespace_height` at that time.

Thus, if the compose-box is already open at the time of
bottom-whitespace resize, the max-height of `#compose-textarea` will
also get reset at the same time, whereas, if the compose-box is closed
at the time of bottom-whitespace resize, the max-height of
`#compose-textarea` won't get reset at that time, but it will surely
get reset whenever the user will open the compose-box.

Tested on my Ubuntu Development Environment on Chrome and Firefox browsers.

Fixes: #16038.

2021-06-29 11:24:01 -07:00

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