Re: Tooltips in save panels

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On 18.02.2013 12:25, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> I think the root of this problem isn't even in gui. A timer gets set 
> up for the tooltip via the NSTimer method
> -scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats:
> That method uses the runmode NSDefaultRunLoopMode for the timer. While 
> a modal window gets displayed gui requests events in the 
> NSModalPanelRunLoopMode and the timer wont get fired. Now this 
> behaviour matches the Apple documentation, but results in the tooltip 
> never getting displayed.
when you write "this behaviour matches Apple" do you mean our timer is 
acting correct but we are using the wrong one?

Riccardo
> To work around this behaviour gui should create the timer via 
> -timerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats: and add it to 
> the runloop itself for different modes.