Re: How to popdown a tooltip

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

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Calum said:
 
> So, actually I'm beginning to wonder if any keypress should pop down a
> tooltip, regardless of how it was posted and which control now has
> focus-- but only if that keypress could also still be passed through to
> do its "normal" job.  Which is a big "if", I guess.

Hey, here's an ignorant and simple solution that conserves
keybindings...

why not make F10 a toggle ?

-Bill

 
> Either way, there's at least one special case, unfortunately-- the
> panel, the objects on which show tooltips when you mouse over them, even
> though the panel itself never really gains focus.  Therefore there's no
> obvious way to pop down those tooltips from the keyboard, because your
> keypresses will go to whatever window on your desktop really does have
> focus at that time.  Maybe that's not such a big deal, though.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.