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| Summary: | Tooltip offset in multi monitor setup | ||
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| Product: | platform | Reporter: | thomasbarnett <thomasbarnett> |
| Component: | Window System | Assignee: | Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | DUAL_MONITOR |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 7.0.1 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | Tooltip position when IDE is stretched over two monitors | ||
i have reproduced this bug with a plaing swing app (swingset demo) it seems the ToolTipManager gets confused where to display the tooltip popup if it is close to screen edges. |
Created attachment 108680 [details] Tooltip position when IDE is stretched over two monitors NetBeans IDE 7.0 RC1 (Build 201103280000) 1.6.0_25; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 20.0-b11 Windows 7 version 6.1 running on x86 This is monitors side-by-side |_|_| This larger view shows how Netbeans straddles monitors, Project pane stretched into left monitor | n|nnn| | n|nnn| | n|nnn| <- stretch direction This is where hover tip y of x appears | n|nnn| | x|ynn| | n|nnn| The previous may be deceptive. So, note the following | nn|nnn| | xn|ynn| | nn|nnn| or |nnn|nnn| |xnn|ynn| |nnn|nnn| Hover tip always starts from the left edge of the right-hand monitor