Anthony,
Using the testcase from the bug report I can reproduce the error on Java 8.
This bug in the ToolTipManager is really about how the mouse events are not
fired when something happens to the z-order. When the modal dialog is shown
the mouseExited is not fired even though that modal dialog is now the only
thing I can interact with. The patch for the symptom was to hide the tooltip
when initiateToolTip was called and this condition was detected. I would think
that would be pretty easy to get approved. However, fixing the root cause
requires a bunch of thought and debate on what determines the mouse being
contained in a component (X-axis and Y-axis only or X,Y,Z-axis).
Thanks,
Jason
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:22:39 +0400
> From: anthony.pet...@oracle.com
> To: jason_mehr...@hotmail.com; swing-dev@openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: <Swing Dev> JDK-6219960 null reference in ToolTipManager
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Is this bug still reproducible with Java 8?
>
> Also, if you want to contribute a patch, please read
> http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
> On 4/18/2014 1:14 AM, Jason Mehrens wrote:
> > Hello swing-dev,
> >
> > I'm the submitter of the testcase for bug id 6219960 and I had also
> > submitted a patch for this issue. However, I noticed that this is
> > closed as won't fix. Is this in error? If so I can resubmit the patch.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason
