435606 - Tooltips for column selection display in wrong position

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Johannes Rössel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

When selecting columns to display in the main view the tooltips for the items in the drop-down menu appear in the wrong position (i.e. far left in the window instead of in the vicinity of the mouse pointer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the button to select columns to display (far right of the list view header)
2. Hover over a menu item long enough to let the tooltip display
Actual Results:  
The tooltip shows up in the left of Thunderbird's window (see URL). It is slightly offset to the top (i.e. it wouldn't appear in the correct position even if the horizontal position would be correct.

The horizontal and vertical position is still linked somehow to the position of the mouse pointer as it shifts depending on where exactly the mouse hovers over a menu item and the vertical position shifts depending on which menu item the pointer hovers over.

Expected Results:  
The tooltip should show somewhere near the mouse pointer.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM on linux/trunk. Do you still see it in 3.0alpha1, or nightly builds?
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/

Comment 2

[Biju]

WFM: on TB version 3.0a1pre (2008050203) WinXP

Comment 3

[Johannes Rössel]

Works here, too, now. 3.0a1 (2008050715) Win6. I didn't find any nightlies before so I assumed 2 was really the last version. It does, however, still show the tooltip of the menu itself on every item (where it does not make much sense).

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM version 3.0a2pre (2008070205) - looks solid on vistsa

tooltips and trees have been undergoing numerous changes on trunk the last several months. expect the unexpected