Re: tooltips not firing on first try
Re: tooltips not firing on first try
- Subject: Re: tooltips not firing on first try
- From: Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:28:31 -0700
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Corbin Dunn wrote:
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> On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Lee Ann Rucker wrote:
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>> Possibly Radar 5847161 - Tooltip on NSTableView does not appear on newly selected cell
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>> Summary:
>> If an NSTableView has a delegate that implements tableView:toolTipForCell:rect:tableColumn:row:mouseLocation:, tooltips will not appear when a cell is selected and the mouse is not moved.
>>
>> Apple's response:
>> NSTableView doesn't know it should update anything, since the mouse has not moved outside of the area it was tracking.
>> Calling updateTrackingAreas should solve the problem.
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> Yeah, that was from me. When did you call -updateTrackingAreas? It should work to reset tracking areas, but also -resetCursorRects might work too.
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> The problem is that there is no way for the table to know that you are returning a different value if you don't move out of the cell frame and back in; it is only called after we get a new tracking area entered message.
My reply 3 years ago was
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14-Apr-2008 02:13 PM Lee Ann Rucker:
Not on Tiger, no, as it's a Leopard API, and when should it be called? ... I did try putting it in my tableViewSelectionDidChange: method but it had no effect.
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Never got anything back from that, and that NSTableView has long since been replaced by an NSCollectionView (and I don't care about Tiger anymore either). The table views we are using don't have tooltips._______________________________________________
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