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weird positioning leads to usability issue
Glenn Posts: 99
24/01/2016
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So my SyMenu appears in the lower right corner of the screen. Then a flyout (to the left) from a near-bottom entry in the menu does, it fact, reach the bottom of the screen. When I hover over the last entry, the tooltip for that item appears, also at the very bottom of the screen. That entry has a particularly long tooltip, and it gets positioned so that it ends at the right edge of the screen, and then extends across the main SyMenu menu, and across the flyout, and further to the left, even. So then it blinks on and off, because my cursor is sitting there hovering. If I click, I seem to mostly click on the tooltip, and the command doesn't execute. The tooltip uses a slightly smaller font, and there is a small slice of the flyout menu entry that doesn't get covered by the tooltip, and if I carefully click there, it works.
I don't know whether there is a solution to this issue or not, or whether it is just the way Windows works.
If, however, you are positioning things rather than Windows, then maybe there is a solution... never position a menu at the extreme bottom of the screen.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
27/01/2016
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It's a bug on tooltip positioning. Incredibly MS have never discover it or never care to fix it, whatever. I know that for long. My idea was to create a completely user draw tooltip to make it pop on a more proper position and, above all, to avoid tooltips wide as the entire screen.... Sometimes I think that the guys in MS are a bit crazy...
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Glenn Posts: 99
29/01/2016
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Hmm. Now you've got me curious what happens when tooltips are as wide as the entire screen!
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
29/01/2016
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What heppens? I go crazy with MS...
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Glenn Posts: 99
01/02/2016
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Hah! If I'd had a "wide as screen" and "3 lines tall" tool tip like you show, I'd have never found a little piece of the menu to click on!
I've rearranged my submenu so that the bottom entry has a short tooltip, and that is an OK workaround for this... it is something to watch out for, though, when designing a menu, and I didn't want to leave it unreported if you didn't know about it.
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