Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Tall tooltip disable Aero on Win7 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 08:33:10 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8e164d158183579609bf09837dee5210"; logging-data="22247"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/6TtRbxxfO+1SHaNfZSw05P0CLhngOjw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:z02PojxVVfUM5PkJvPb0hGZREv0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31795 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?