I just came across a curious problem that I can't believe has not been addressed in the decades that Swing has now been around (and I've been using it :-( It has to do with Tooltips:
Suppose you have a widget - e.g. a JButton - in the bottom right of your window. This widget displays some useful information when the user hovers over it. When the window is maximized, it is observed that the Tooltip itself is showing on top of the widget - since there's no room for the text in its usual place, beneath. Alas, Swing's placement of the tooltip now makes it impossible to click on the widget (a 16x16 Button). The only solution I could think of is to override the "getToolTipLocation()" method for the widget and try to do my own calculation there. But it just seems stupid - why isn't Swing taking care of this? Maybe there's a tooltip property that can be set - e.g. "SHOW_ABOVE" instead of the default "SHOW_BELOW" would be sufficient for my need? Nobody around here knows Swing (dying technology and all that), so I figure I'd ask you guys - even if it's got very little (well, nothing, actually) to do with Netbeans use :-) Thnx, tom -- [email protected] http://landofwolf.blogspot.com/
