Bug? Tooltips won't work with Windows 2000

Hello,
tooltips on items in a toolbar will not show up on W2k, but work with wxGTK and Win XP.

This is also apperent with the latest release of wxGlade (0.3.5.1, which uses 2.5.2.9 and python 2.3.3, py2exified) - tooltips over the bitmap-buttons in the "main-palette".

I wanted to ask if this is a known bug, if others can reproduce or I screwed something up and if there is some workaround for this problem.

Björn Pfeiffer

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wxPython 2.5.2.8u on W2k, python 2.3.4
CVS in Linux python 2.3.4

Björn Pfeiffer wrote:

Hello,
tooltips on items in a toolbar will not show up on W2k, but work with wxGTK and Win XP.

This is also apperent with the latest release of wxGlade (0.3.5.1, which uses 2.5.2.9 and python 2.3.3, py2exified) - tooltips over the bitmap-buttons in the "main-palette".

I wanted to ask if this is a known bug, if others can reproduce or I screwed something up and if there is some workaround for this problem.

It works for me in the demo (2.5.3.1)

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Robin Dunn wrote:

Björn Pfeiffer wrote:

Hello,
tooltips on items in a toolbar will not show up on W2k, but work with wxGTK and Win XP.

This is also apperent with the latest release of wxGlade (0.3.5.1, which uses 2.5.2.9 and python 2.3.3, py2exified) - tooltips over the bitmap-buttons in the "main-palette".

I wanted to ask if this is a known bug, if others can reproduce or I screwed something up and if there is some workaround for this problem.

It works for me in the demo (2.5.3.1)

It doesnt work for me (now 2.5.3.1-unicode).
Same for the ansi build.

But wait, after some trying around I finally saw a "Paste" popping up in
the toolbar-demo, but only once, no idea how, never after.

Note that this is a notebook with a touchpad running the demo.
I have found a note here, that with pen-devices (Tablet-PCs) it can be
tricky to catch the hover event right, since they hardly stand still ever:
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5958b.asp

My mouse-settings are set rather sensitive and accelerated, maybe I
should give that a try.

The "max,min,close" tooltips int window's upper right corner work fine
though.

Björn Pfeiffer