Tooltip is interfering with mouseEntered/mouseExited events

[Pavel Safrata]

On 19.6.2013 16:57, Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
>     Hello,
>     not having any strong opinion on the desired behavior or needed API,
>     here are a few comments to the current state:
>     * Tooltip is a Window, so you should be able to call
>     tooltip.getScene()
>     or tooltip.getScene().getRoot() and watch for mouse events/hover
>     state there
>
> That seems to work when the tooltip appears below, but when I move the 
> mouse inside the tooltip I get a mouseExited from 
> tooltip.getScene.getRoot().

This was explained in my third comment.
Pavel

> Kind regards,
>
>
> -- 
> Pedro Duque Vieira
>
>
>     Hello,
>     not having any strong opinion on the desired behavior or needed API,
>     here are a few comments to the current state:
>     * Tooltip is a Window, so you should be able to call
>     tooltip.getScene()
>     or tooltip.getScene().getRoot() and watch for mouse events/hover
>     state there
>     * Tooltip is a Window so a click-through tooltip is not possible right
>     now. We can talk about hooking its handlers to the owner control
>     handlers somehow.
>     * If you move the mouse to a tooltip, the owner control gets
>     MouseExited
>     event and hides the popup (which will be the case unless we
>     introduce a
>     "mouse transparent window"). So there doesn't seem to be much point in
>     handling mouse events on the tooltip. The reason why the tooltip
>     is not
>     hidden immediately after it pops under the mouse is that there is a
>     weird piece of code there that ignores MouseExited events with the
>     same
>     coordinates as the previous mouse event had. This looks like a
>     workaround, and a wrong one, because the control can move out from a
>     not-moving cursor. I'm going to file a bug against that.
>     Pavel
>