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Bug 5631

Summary: Explorer tabs are flashing and no tooltip is displayed under JDK1.3 (Occasionally).
Product: platform Reporter: Jan Chalupa <jchalupa>
Component: -- Other --Assignee: David Simonek <dsimonek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P4    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description Jan Chalupa 2000-02-03 19:38:18 UTC 
Occasionally, the Explorer tabs start flashing instead of displaying a tooltip.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. In the Explorer Window, select the third or fourth tab (Javadoc or Runtime, by default).
2. Move the mouse pointer to the first or second tab without clicking on it.
3. Wait a moment. The tabs should start flashing.

It seems that (mouse) events are buffered during flashing. The longer you keep the mouse pointer on a tab, the longer it takes to the UI to recover.


The problem could not be reproduced under JDK 1.2.2, so it may be a JDK 1.3 issue only. Classic VM vs. Hotspot makes no difference.

Thread dump attached.
Comment 1 Jiri Kovalsky 2000-07-04 15:09:59 UTC 
Explorer is not the only one. The same problem concerns Component Inspector as
well. Failing tab is in this case the last one: "Code Generation". But I found
out that it doesn't matter, what tab is selected.
(Seen on Windows NT)
Comment 2 David Simonek 2000-07-12 14:31:59 UTC 
This is clearly JDK problem and I see no possible workaround for it except for
not using tool tips.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5610 ***
Comment 3 David Simonek 2000-07-12 14:34:59 UTC 
This is clearly JDK problem and I see no possible workaround for it except for
not using tool tips.
Comment 4 David Simonek 2000-07-12 14:36:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5319 ***
Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 15:53:52 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verified.
Comment 6 Quality Engineering 2003-07-01 16:18:31 UTC 
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.