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
