Re: Tooltips - what a pathetic joke... :)

FROM : Lance Bland
DATE : Sat Dec 14 13:42:36 2002

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 02:24 AM, Steve Gehrman wrote:

> I added tool tips to a view, then tried to scroll the view.  The
> performance was pathetic.  When a view scrolls the NSToolTipManager
> has to reposition all the tooltip tracking areas and is super slow. 
> So slow that I'll have to write my own home grown tooltip manager. 
> Why is simple stuff like this so pathetic in Cocoa?
>
> Has anyone done this already?  Any Cocoa engineers have a secret
> undocumented hacks that make this feature usable?

I just made a new app with a view with a tool tip in a scroll view and
I didn't see anything wrong with scrolling. Then I made 3 views, with
different tool tips in a scrollview and it scrolled fast. Is there
something else you are doing?

-lance

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