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Bug 8874

Summary:	Should have tool tip for table elements
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Veronika Irvine <veronika_irvine>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	n.a.edgar
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	51633

Description Tod Creasey

2002-01-31 15:43:00 EST

We do not have tool tips for the elements in our tables - namely the first 3 
columns in the Tasks View. As a result assistive technologies such as JAWS have 
no information to provide the user.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2002-02-01 14:45:51 EST

SWT limitation.  Can't set tooltip on TableColumn.

Comment 2 Mike Wilson

2002-02-01 15:13:58 EST

Another feature for the hypothetical CTable?

Comment 3 Tod Creasey

2002-03-14 13:23:04 EST

Usability rather than accessiblity issue.

Comment 4 Veronika Irvine

2004-09-24 10:27:11 EDT

This is platform behaviour.  Please use the following workaround:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclip
se/swt/snippets/Snippet125.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup )

Listen for mouse movement, determine the table item under the pointer, and
update the Table's tooltip accordingly