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Not sure if this is SWT, UI or Help. Picked SWT as on a search other tool tip entries were SWT. When mouse hovers over an icon the associated tool tip is displayed, but there are problems when the tool tip is for an icon on the far right (debug perspective: Console, variables,... most perspectives: tasks view...). The tool tip can end up off the visible screen. In a default MS Windows arrangement, with a maximized workbench, this works fine as the tool tip pushes itself to the left when it sees the end of the displayable area. When the MS Windows Taskbar has been moved to the right side of the screen the tool tip calculation is not based on the inside edge of the taskbar but the edge of the display (right edge of task bar). This results in a visible tool tip of one to two characters in length. I'm a big fan of taskbar to the right - as is some percentage of the target community.
--- more info Ok, maybe four or five chars... Something else I just noticed (went back to test it some more). If I give control to another window (say a browser) and then use the taskbar icon for the workbench to get it back - the tool tip hovers above the taskbar (fine, no problems with that). If I change perspectives, or click on the workbench icon in the taskbar to minimize and then return the application, the tool tip is then under the taskbar again. Subsequent tests seem to indicate that this is not always predictable (when it will be above or below the task bar).
We should not be hovering under (or over) the taskbar area.
Windows is popping up the tool tip for a tool bar. No sure why IE get's this case right and our native tool bar does not.
Still a problem on recent builds (as of 05/27). A good example of the frustration is in the debug perspective and the "Clear console" hover text for the console eraser icon. A real usability pain - inability to read the text makes you mad.
I'm sorry but Windows is popping up the hover help for the toolbar, not us. There is no code in SWT that says "position and show the hover help for a tool item", the toolbar does this internally. The fact that IE gets this right means that there may be something we can do but not for 2.0. Sorry.
We can't work around this. Sorry Pat, Windows is popping up the tooltip, not SWT.
