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Re: Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7

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On 06/14/2015 01:41 AM, Marketa Jadalova wrote:
> If program generate very tall Swing tooltip (taller than screen
> resolution), on Windows 7, Aero switch off and only come back on once
> Java application is close.
>
> Is this intended behavior? Is known bug or have known workaround? All
> Java version I tried (1.6, 1.7) have this.
>
> Could add code to limit tooltip lines and replace rest with "...", but
> then, different display or font will have different limit before Aero
> problem happen. Would need to add preference setting for users, and would
> still get many support call about it when limit set too high for
> particular workstation. Would cause more confusion than it solve, I
> think. Cleaner would be if tall tooltip not cause problem in first place.
> Though also, then only middle of tooltip visible, when only top would be
> better.
>
> For now I may limit tooltip to 10 lines regardless of underlying data.
> But cleaner solution wanted if possible.
>

Do tall tooltips outside a Java program also cause a problem?

<http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/43170-viewing-variables-in-debug-window-disables-aero-interface>

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Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7 Marketa Jadalova <m-jadalova3@gmail.com> - 2015-06-14 05:41 +0000
  Re: Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-14 08:33 -0400
    Re: Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7 Marketa Jadalova <m-jadalova3@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 10:41 +0000
      Re: Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7 Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2015-06-19 10:14 +0200

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