<Swing Dev> RFR JDK-8232927:ToolTipManager is unable to force heavy weight popups

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Prasanta.

Isn't the current bug a duplicate of
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8147521
?

On 22.07.2020 00:44, Prasanta Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Please review a fix for an issue whereby Java developer is not able to to force the tooltips to be displayed in a heavyweight popup.
> 
> In ToolTipManager#showTipWindow() , even if we do "ToolTipManager.setLightWeightPopupEnabled(false)" we can only force a medium weight popup as can be seen here
> 
> [http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/client/file/f054a3a03050/src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/ToolTipManager.java#l338]
> 
> In addition, there is also a field "heavyWeightPopupEnabled" inside the ToolTipManager which is not used..
> There should be at least one way to force a heavy weight popup in the ToolTipManager.
> 
> Proposed fix is to give an option to developer to force tooltip to be displayed in HW. CSR will be raised after technical review
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232927
> 
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psadhukhan/8232927/webrev.0
> 
> Regards
> Prasanta
> 
> 


-- 
Best regards, Sergey.