Re: [Gramps-devel] Annoying Popup

[Edward C. <ec...@ya...>]

This po-pup does behave like a tool-tip, so maybe that is what it is. Anyway, the behavior in the Gramps 3.1.1 Windows-port on an XP-SP3 system is as follows:

When dragging a reference from the clipboard dialog box to an Event Reference Editor's source tab, this tool-tip/pop-up appears and remains on screen until the cursor mouses over the  windows portion of Clipboard dialog box, at which time it will disappear. However, if you do not navigate the cursor back to the windows portion of the Clipboard dialog box, the tool-tip/pop-up remains on-screen and is topmost such that if you bring up another window, like a web browser the tool-tip/pop-up remains visible, obscuring that portion of the screen. What I mean by this is that the tool-tip/pop-up will NOT disappear if you navigate to a non-window portion of the Clipboard dialog box, such as approaching the CLOSE button from the bottom. The nasty part is that if you close the Clipboard dialog box before you make the tool-tip/pop-up disappear, it becomes permanent  for that session of GRAMPS, remaining on the topmost screen even if you navigate to other screens,
 such as a browser window. Only quitting that GRAMPS session will make the  tool-tip/pop-up disappear. Once GRAMPS is restarted normalcy returns.

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Duncan Lithgow <dun...@gm...> wrote:
...
I need a more exact explanation before I can try to reproduce this on
linux. I certianly haven't noticed this on my install of 3.1.1, if
it's happening then yes, it's a bug.

But could someone tell me... isn't it also a bug that this doesn't get
killed when GRAMPS is closed?

> Normally when setting a popup one can define how long the popup should
> remain visible. Perhaps this is forgotten here.

Isn't this a tool-tip rather than a popup? And tool-tip usually go
away when you mouse away from the object which triggered them.