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IagoSRL / TBX-Unified-Search

Thunderbird extension that unify the features of global search box and quick filter box in an unique widget.
https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/thunderbird/addon/unified-search-187593/
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Minor issue with 'Results' tooltip #17

Closed tanstaafl closed 11 years ago

tanstaafl commented 12 years ago

Hi Iago,

One of our users just asked me about this, and I agree it probably shouldn't do what it is doing...

The little 'Results' tooltip/pop-up that is displayed when a filter is being applied is always on top of other windows, even windows of other programs... what she is doing is she will be filtering some messages, and then she will switch to another program/window (ie, Word or Excel), and even though the Thunderbird window is 'behind' the Excel window, the Tooltip (showing the number of messages found) is displayed on top of the Excel window, when it should be behind it.

I hope this was clear - if not, I can provide a screenshot...

IagoSRL commented 12 years ago

Ok, its clear I understand it, I will study it.

Thanks for the feedback, Iago Lorenzo Salgueiro

.:N8:. -----Mensaje original----- De: tanstaafl Enviad.: 17/01/2012, 20:01 Para: IagoSRL Asunto: [TBX-Unified-Search] Minor issue with 'Results' tooltip (#17)

Hi Iago,

One of our users just asked me about this, and I agree it probably shouldn't do what it is doing...

The little 'Results' tooltip/pop-up that is displayed when a filter is being applied is always on top of other windows, even windows of other programs... what she is doing is she will be filtering some messages, and then she will switch to another program/window (ie, Word or Excel), and even though the Thunderbird window is 'behind' the Excel window, the Tooltip (showing the number of messages found) is displayed on top of the Excel window, when it should be behind it.

I hope this was clear - if not, I can provide a screenshot...

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/IagoSRL/TBX-Unified-Search/issues/17

IagoSRL commented 12 years ago

It seems a problem of all the popups at Mozilla platform, but normally popups are closed when change to another thing or app, but the results popup must not be closed... I need look for another solucion instead of use popups for this info.

tanstaafl commented 12 years ago

Ok, no problem, and thanks for the feedback and continuing to look into it!

iPhilip commented 12 years ago

The tooltip/pop-up continues to be an annoyance. Unlike other tooltips in Thunderbird (I am running 14.0), this one is persistent and shows up on top of other window even when Thunderbird is in the background. I wish there was a way to turn it off.

IagoSRL commented 11 years ago

Hi,

I fixed this problem by automatically hide the tooltip when the widget lost the focus and opening it when it gets the focus again, just the same as the horizontal filtering bar, this avoids the annoying behavior commented here.

The side effect is that when you have a filter being applied and move to another element in Thunderbird, as select an email for preview, the tooltip will be hidden and don't get that information, I thought in the past this was a bad thing but now I change my opinion and I consider it a minor problem, really thats information is not need all the time, and is showed again only by focus the widget (with the shortcut or the mouse).

New version is tagged as 0.7.2 and can be downloaded from Tags, but remember that the zip file downloaded must be extracted and zipped only the contents of the extracted folder in order to be able to offer that file to Thunderbird for install as extension.

Thanks, Iago Lorenzo Salgueiro

iPhilip commented 11 years ago

The new version works great! Thank you, Iago.