Sorry to insist but the question has not been answered yet. Does someone know how to see if a mouse is hover a tooltip? Or if there is a specific component beneath the mouse and under the tooltip?
Cheers, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Pedro Duque Vieira < [email protected]> wrote: > The problem gets worse because tooltip is not a node (why?) so you cannot > easily know if the mouse is hover a tooltip or not. > > Does someone know how to see if a mouse is hover a tooltip? > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:11 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > >> A somewhat related inconvenience I have with tooltips is that if you put >> a tooltip on a button, then hover the mouse so that the tooltip shows up, >> you can't click to activate the button unless you move the mouse pixel to >> left or top because the resultant click will go to the tooltip and not to >> the button. It's especially strange on Modena, because there the tooltip >> has a rounded corner, so you visibly aren't clicking on the tooltip, though >> you are clicking in the tooltip's rectangular bounds. >> >> Some examples of how other apps handle tooltips: >> In NetBeans the tooltip shows up below the button rather than at the >> mouse position - this has the advantage of not obscuring the thing which >> the tooltip is providing information on. >> Intellij Idea is similar, except that it's tooltip is a callout has with >> a little triangular area which overlaps the thing the tooltip is for. If >> you click in the overlapped area, the underlying node still takes the >> expected action. >> Microsoft apps like Outlook show tooltips below the things they are >> providing info on (or above if there is not enough screen area below to >> show the tooltip). >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Pedro Duque Vieira >> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:42 PM >> To: OpenJFX Mailing List >> Subject: Tooltip is interfering with mouseEntered/mouseExited events >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a toolbar composed by a couple of buttons. The toolbar fades away >> when the mouse exits. The problem is that I have tooltips set up with the >> toolbar and sometimes they appear under the mouse which triggers a >> mouseExit event that makes the toolbar fade-away. >> >> My point is maybe the tooltips should be viewed by the API as a component >> that is part of the other component which they are set upon. >> >> In this situation I'm getting random mouse exits depending when whether >> the tooltip appears below the mouse or not. >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Pedro Duque Vieira >> > > > > -- > Pedro Duque Vieira > -- Pedro Duque Vieira
