Bug 15722 - No way to get popup text without a mouse
Summary: No way to get popup text without a mouse
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9352
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Grant Gayed CLA
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-10 06:58 EDT by David Goodenough CLA
Modified: 2002-05-13 17:22 EDT (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:

Attachments
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description David Goodenough CLA 2002-05-10 06:58:35 EDT 
There would appear to be no way to get to popup error text, such as that 
associated with the syntax error underlining without positioning the mouse
cursor over the error area.  There should be a way of positioning the text
cursor above the error area and using the keyboard call up the message.
Comment 1 Adam Kiezun CLA 2002-05-10 08:22:54 EDT 
F2 does not work?
Comment 2 David Goodenough CLA 2002-05-10 15:38:04 EDT 
Well I had missed F2, but now I come to try it it nearly works.  The problemis that what pops up dissapears so rapidly that it is hardly even visiblelet alone being able to read what it says.
Comment 3 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-05-11 04:22:46 EDT 
F2 now called Show Description Tooltip does what you want. 
The pop-up shell stays up on Windows. You see the problem
on Linux (GTK? Motif?)

I suspect an event inconsistency between Linux/Motif and Windows.
Moving to SWT for comment.
Comment 4 David Goodenough CLA 2002-05-11 12:27:39 EDT 
Motif
Comment 5 Mike Wilson CLA 2002-05-13 08:55:04 EDT 
See also bug #15252.
Comment 6 Grant Gayed CLA 2002-05-13 17:22:41 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9352 ***