Bugzilla – Bug 171
Tooltips obscured by mouse pointer
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:51:44 UTC
Created attachment 18 [details] Mac obscured tooltip Reported on OS X 10.5, 10.6. Even with default Mac mouse pointers, tooltips are obscured by the pointer instead of being below the pointer. See attached picture of Edit Toolbar. Native Mac apps.don't have this problem so may be a wxMac problem, but could not find anything in Widgets tickets or Google search. There doesn't seem to a problem on Windows 7 or Linux Ubuntu at the moment either with default or larger mouse pointers (supplied by the OS).
Obscuring with standard sized pointers also occurs on OS X 10.4 (Intel, like the other reports). Bill reports on a PPC Mac 10.5.8 that standard pointers don't obscure much of the hover text but even there the top of the Audacity tooltip is above the bottom of the standard pointer. Larger pointers mean that more hover text is obscured. It's apparent however that normal behaviour on all OS'es is for the left edge of the tooltip to align with the pointer. In Audacity on Mac, the tooltip centre seems to be aligned with the pointer. In Windows and Mac apps generally, the tooltip left edge aligns with the left edge of the pointer. If we could make the tooltip left edge align with the right edge of the pointer as happens on Ubuntu, then it wouldn't matter if the vertical position of the tooltip couldn't be controlled. Most Mac apps. seemingly allow tooltips to be above the base of larger pointers.
I think this behavior was fixed by the switch to wxWidgets 3.0.2. Compare the behavior of 2.1.1 with 2.1.3 alpha. But 2.1.3 alpha has a different problem. The tooltips do not always appear when you hover. I find that on Macbook, to make the tooltip for the Cut button to appear (assuming I have generated and selected some sound), I must first do a short three-fingered drag and release of the Edit toolbar grabber, so that it does not move. But this makes a tooltip appear for the grabber. Then moving over the Cut button, I see a tooltip. But simply hovering over the button does not make the tooltip as expected.
This commit makes tooltips respond in a more lively way to mouse movements, on Mac at least. 9b21e11ff6665d3398e745de8c8881eda3dd4e7d Please consider closing this bug after this.
(In reply to Paul L from comment #3) > Please consider closing this bug after this. Thanks Paul - this still seems good on Sierra and the tooltips are responsive.
