Tooltip for disabled controls

[Scott Palmer]

Is there a way to get the Tooltips without the events ever going to the
component?
Maybe the Tooltip implementation can change instead.  My idea is to create
an alternate event dispatch chain that is identical to the existing one
except that it ignores the disabled property on the Node.  It could handle
reacting to events that *would have* been delivered to Nodes had they not
been disabled.  You keep this separate from the existing event dispatch
chain so as not to alter any current behaviour, but implement a Tooltip
Manager with it. (And potentially other things.)

I don't think this would have any significant performance impact since it
would normally share the same exact chain as the current event dispatch
mechanism.  It just has an extra bit that goes beyond the reach of the
regular event dispatch chain in the case where disabled Nodes are
encountered. I think it would open up new possibilities.... but perhaps
it's a bit to radical at this stage?

Scott


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com>wrote:

> > I vote for solution 1): Break backwards compatibility. It shouldn't hurt
> that much, given that disabled controls did not receive events before. It
> would be worse if it were the other way around.
>
> I don't think we can so easily brush off the compatibility concern here.
> My guess (and it is just a guess at this point) is that Controls would have
> a major amount of work to make sure they're all working correctly after
> changing the semantics so that disabled nodes are delivered events.
>
> I'm also guessing this will result in widespread breakage. Maybe it will
> only break each app in 3 places (say), but that's a lot of pain to inflict.
>
> Before going down that route somebody needs to prototype the behavior
> change on Node and run Ensemble and other apps and see if there is any
> appreciable breakage. I'm guessing it will be rampant. For example, Node
> toggles "hover" property based on the mouse enter/exit events. Now that
> disabled nodes will get these, they'll be hover:true. Any listeners on this
> will obviously be affected, but so will all of the CSS. So are the CSS
> rules designed such that disable will still be applied, or will the hover
> rules take precedence? We'd have to try it out. Also will customer
> applications break in this manner as well?
>
> Richard