285601 - Tooltip sometimes shows up at screen origin

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Quite often when I'm browsing through news.bbc.co.uk with several tabs open, I
see a tooltop pop up at the lower left corner of the screen. We must be getting
some coordinates wrong somewhere.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I think I know what's going on here.

The BBC site has some images at the top of the page with tooltips, so as you
mouse into the tab bar, you hover over those images. This triggers the tooltip,
but it it shows up a moment later, after you've switched to another tab. For
some reason this causes the tooltip to show up near the screen origin.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Simon, any more work on this? A candidate for 1.0?

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Nope, and probably not.

Comment 5

[Nick Forge]

I also see this, or something similar, but for some reason nearly always at http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/.

I haven't been able to replicate the behaviour, but sometimes when I Command-Click on a link, then change tabs, an unrelated Tooltip from that page will show up, sometimes on the Camino window, sometimes in the bottom left corner of the screen, outside the window. I've barely noticed it on any other pages (I think I might have seen it once or twice), but it happens quite often at the page I mentioned above.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

It happens when a page has an image with a tooltip right against the edge of the frame, and you mouse over that when leaving the content area.

Comment 7

[Nick Forge]

Just to clarify, I was using a macro to change tabs - so it's not specific to the edge of the frame - most of the links on that page have a tooltip 'hotspot'
surrounding them. It is as you described - when you change tabs, whatever routine brings up the tooltips keeps running, and doesn't know where to put the tooltip, since you're on a different page.... I just found another bug if you try and do the same thing but change window instead of tab... searching time.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: Fix this, bug 323387 and bug 311220