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Bug 216245

Summary:	Improve support for tooltips not initiated by mouse
Product:	editor	Reporter:	Svata Dedic <sdedic>
Component:	Painting & Printing	Assignee:	Svata Dedic <sdedic>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	API_REVIEW, API_REVIEW_FAST
Priority:	P3
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Proposed changes

Description Svata Dedic 2012-08-01 11:08:46 UTC

Created attachment 122627 [details]
Proposed changes

The ToolTipSupport.setToolTipVisible() is primarily made for clients, who want to display a tooltip relevant to the current mouse location. The call changes internal visibility state, then asks View Hierarchy to build the tooltip contents. Some of the views then calls one of the setTooltip() overloads to actually deliver the tooltip contents.

If the originating event is not a mouse gesture (c.f. brace matching, which can display tooltip when caret moves to closing brace position), the tooltip must be still set visible, but the request should not be routed through the existing APIs, which are tied on x,y coordinates as a context. 

So I propose a simple overload

setToolTipVisible(boolean visible, boolean updateFromView)

see the attachment.

Comment 1 Svata Dedic 2012-09-10 08:02:58 UTC

for motivation, see #215520

Comment 2 Svata Dedic 2012-09-11 16:43:54 UTC

Committed as http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/7be2480bdf58

Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2012-09-12 02:10:38 UTC

Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201209120001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/7be2480bdf58
User: Svata Dedic <sdedic@netbeans.org>
Log: #216245: added overload for showing tooltips not based on mouse gestures