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for example, the tasks location columns is often on the right, and too small, so a tooltip is displaying the missing information but the tooltip is positionned across screen boundary.
Also happens with Explorer under Windows 2000. Seems to be platform reality. Moving to SWT for comments.
tooltips are like java.awt.Window. Nothing irrealisable in that. No, explorer does not clip tooltips. What are you looking at?!
This can be fixed (for non-native tooltips) when API is added to address muti- monitors. I believe that tooltips are "clipped" in IE, depending on the version. Dirk, if the tooltip in question is non-native, this PR belongs to UI and someone there. If the tooltip is native, it belongs in SWT. Do you know which tooltip quartz12h is talking about?
Forgot to add Dirk to the discussion. Dirk?
He is talking about a native tooltip in the task list (if a column has the ... at the end). If Task list has to fix something the PR belongs to Platform/UI.
*** Bug 26821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If it's a native tooltip, we won't try to work around it. Sorry.
Oh, common...! how could a Windows tooltip be out of screen... but whatever... Just make the task list tooltip non native! It look so stupid to barely get 1 inch of tooltip when the text is like 5 inches! You got so many other tooltip everywhere else working properly, why not use these for the task bar...?
Just adding in my 2 cents. on my windows machine (XP, dual monitor but that may not be affecting things) if I use windows explorer, in details view, and squish a folder name so "..." appears, if i put it close to the right edge of either monitor, the tooltip appears and does not cross to the other screen or off screen; the whole tooltip is "right aligned" to the edge of the screen. This suggests that its possible for a view (I tried it on the problems view, squishing "in folder" to get ... and putting it close to the edge of screen) that has a *Table to do this too, no?
*** Bug 168996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a Windows bug we won't work around.
Just to let you know, the editor pane tabs tooltip are also displayed out of screen. Dunno if this is native or not. But there is more than the task view. Have you tried at to put 2 screens, and/or with the primary (#1) on the 'right' of the secondary (#2)? My eclipse at home (only 1 screen) works well too. So it is quite important that dual monitors be used to reproduce. Meanwhile, it is not so much about a workaround, only one correct implementation is required, one which acknowlege the multimonitor dispositions. Note that with JNA (https://jna.dev.java.net/) you can quickly call any native lib to obtain the multimonitor details. No native code to write anymore. Fixing this is not a workaround but a usability improvement. If tooltips are not readable, might as well remove them.
