OpenEuphoria

Re: Strange tooltip display

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 08, 2004
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CChris wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a window with a TabControl, created with a parent and only the 
> WS_SIZEBOX style.
> 
> Not far from the initial position for this window is a PushButton called 
> "Show toolbox" with the same tooltip as the caption. It tggles the window
>  visibility on and off.
> 
> When I clck on this buttton with the window still invisible, and if I 
> don't quickly move the mouse after clicking, the tooltip gets displayed 
> in a window the size of the window to display. It stays there till the 
> mouse pointer gets off the button's caption.
> 
> I could observe this spectacular effect only the first time I click the 
> button after opening the main window. Clicking the window invisible and 
> bringing it back does nthing unexpected, and the toolti displays in
> the rectangl it is supposed to lie in.
> The effect is fairly reproducible whenever I launch the application.
> 
> Any idea of where's the bug? Still Win98SE. All right, that's the bug in 
> the first place but it(s strange behaviour anyway.

It would really help if you could give me the smallest example program
that demostrates this effect. I tried to make one up based this
description above but I didn't really understand some of it. 


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia