Pharap
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2 years ago It's because when the box is that far down your screen the tooltip has to render higher to avoid overlapping the toolbar, so the mouse ends up intersecting with the tooltip instead of the button, and that somehow cancels the displaying of the tooltip.
I hasten to point out that's not my fault, that's Microsoft's fault. I just provide the tooltip text, the actual tooltip control is written by Microsoft.
My options for fixing it amount to:
- Put less text in the tooltip
- The easiest solution, but frankly I don't want to remove that information, I consider it important for users to understand what buttons do.
- Somehow introduce some kind of custom tooltip control or custom tooltip behaviour
- Tooltips aren't like ordinary controls because they only appear temporarily, so that would probably be a nightmare to implement
- Come up with some awful hack that removes either extra text from the tooltip or removes the whole tooltip if the button is a certain width down the screen
- First I'd have to work out how to get the user's desktop resolution, then I'd likely have to guess how high the toolbar is because I doubt there's a function for that, and frankly this is a horrendously hacky solution in the first place.
- I can move the action bar to the top instead
- I'd rather not because I like where the action bar already is, but if it's really that much of an issue this is probably the only realistic solution.
Interestingly it doesn't always happen, it seems to depend where the mouse approaches from and at what speed.
Mouse-over the 'Invert' tool. Tool-tip momentarily displays but starts to flash on/off rapidly. Only happens when window is made full-screen height (width doesn't matter). Behaviour not shown with other tooltips.
Update: Can trigger with a smaller window, but when the window is low enough that the tooltip doesn't have enough y-space to be displayed. Perhaps because the text contains multiple lines?