Annoying Popup

[Edward Comer]

Retry - my attachments were too large before.
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I love and frequently use the Clipboard function. However, it has a "Source Reference" popup that is very annoying. In the Windows version of GRAMPS I consider it a bug but I haven't tested it in Linux to see if the problem is universal. When you slide over a reference from the clipboard to the sources tab of an edit window, this annoying little "Source Reference" popup appears. It will stay up until you mouse over it. The bug is that if you close the clipboard before you make the popup dissappear it becomes permenant until you kill GRAMPS and restart it.

The "Source Reference" popup serves, in my opinion, no useful purpose. I propose that it be eleminated in the next release.

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[Duncan Lithgow-5]

2009/4/8 Benny Malengier <benny.malengier@...>:
> Post an bug ticket on the bug tracker.
> Somebody should test if this is a problem in linux too.
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.

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[Edward Comer]

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 <duncan.lithgow@...> 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.

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