122958 - 'Mouse over' information disappears too quickly

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, defect)

Description

[Emanuel Gull]

I'm using today's (Feb 1 02) Calendar on Mozilla 0.9.7 and Win2000.

When I move my mouse over an event, the calendar shows a quick 'mouse over' menu 
(or dialog?), however the dialog disappears after 1/10 of a second or so - too 
quickly to read the information about this event.

I guess that's a problem with the new interface and can be fixed easily.

URL: http://n.ethz.ch/student/gullc/download/dialog-menu.jpg

to see what I'm talking about.

Comment 1

[xyzzy]

On Windows 98 with 2/6/02 XPI:

I am seeing these menus appear slowly, and persist for too long, even more after
I franticly move the mouse around.  I'm beginning to think that there is some
huge number of JS events firing in the background slowing down the entire product.

Comment 2

[Karl Guertin]

This really annoys me, it's meant to show the info for the event but is
implemented as a tooltip. When the user hovers over the dialog, the tooltip
activates then after the alotted 5secs (or whatever) it goes away. As a user I
want to be able to actually read the event info and so the popup should 

1. be formatted in a nice way so it's easier to read and not so ugly
2. stay as long as I hover over the event 

I'm pretty sure we could use a popupgroup, use CSS to format for 1, and use
onMouseOver to trigger a .5 second wait then popup, use onMouseOut to destroy
the event info popup. Sound good?

Comment 3

[Colin Phillips]

The whole reason that Joe rewrote the popup code was so that we wouldn't have to
do that sort of thing.

Comment 4

[Colin Phillips]

Fixed in CVS.

There were 2 popup's in the calendar.xul file, both with the "id" of "savetip".
 I got rid of them both and made a <tooltip id="savetip"/> instead.  Much cleaner.

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

verified

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: Sunbird Only. Be afraid for your sanity!