Bug 7742 - [Tasks] Tooltip display "timeout" should be eliminated
Summary: [Tasks] Tooltip display "timeout" should be eliminated
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P5 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: investigate
Depends on: 73228
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Reported: 2002-01-16 10:45 EST by Duong Nguyen CLA
Modified: 2006-06-22 08:33 EDT (History)
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Description Duong Nguyen CLA 2002-01-16 10:45:09 EST 
If you are writing Java code and when you compile it you get an error that 
shows up in the tasklist.  If the error is longer than the tasklist window is 
wide, you hover the mouse over the error to see the tooltip display the whole 
error message. As you are looking between the error and your code to pinpoint 
the problem the tooltip display times out and you can't see the whole message 
any more.

Expected:

The tooltip continues to display as long as the mouse is hovered over a task in 
the task list.
Comment 1 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-05-01 13:35:32 EDT 
The tooltip that is displayed in this case is done "for free" by the native 
control. 

In recent 2.0 builds the status line is used to display the error message.

Consider further enhancements post 2.0
Comment 2 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-09 10:38:58 EDT 
Reopened for investigation
Comment 3 Anshu Prasad CLA 2002-09-23 09:32:52 EDT 
User configurable tooltip timeout times would address our issues.
Comment 4 Chris McLaren CLA 2002-09-30 08:44:31 EDT 
Steve, how can one tweak the tooltip popup time?
Comment 5 Steve Northover CLA 2002-09-30 09:25:09 EDT 
There is no API to do this.  The issue here is that there are at least 3 types 
of tooltip things in the world:

1) tooltips provided "for free" by the widget (ie. item hover in a tree)
2) tooltips provided by the widget (using Control.setToolTipText())
3) tooltips written by the application (coded using the SWT.MouseHover event)

Chris, if you want to move this PR to SWT, don't change the owner to me, mark 
it as "Reassign but to owner", or better, keep this bug yourself and enter a 
new DCR against SWT - "DCR - need to configure time out for mouse hover" and 
link this PR to it.  Thanks.
Comment 6 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2004-09-03 06:00:11 EDT 
still not possible in 3.0
Comment 7 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2004-09-03 06:03:00 EDT 
Created bug 73228 for API request. Not sure if this is helpful here but we 
need API for setting the timeout in case 2.
Comment 8 Tod Creasey CLA 2006-06-22 08:33:58 EDT 
There are currently no plans to work on this feature