HTML Tooltips not showing in AIR HTML Desktop Application

Report · Nov 10, 2010

I have written a desktop application and am extending it to use tinyMCE. I used the 'Bee' example as a starting point. Both 'Bee' and my application fail to show tooltip help when you hover over an editing button (like bold or italic). I traced the problem down and it would appear as if the "title" attribute of the anchor element does not cause the text to appear in a popup. To test this, I created a very small application with just the following HTML:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>New Adobe AIR Project</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/air/AIRAliases.js"></script>

    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="http://www.google.com" title="Here is some help">Go To Google</a>
    </body>
</html>

When shown in firefox or IE, this html shows the tip correctly when you mouse over the link, but the tip does not show correctly in the AIR application (on Windows XP). If you actually click the link, I notice that google's normal tooltips do not show as well.

Either this is a bug with the AIR implementation of the webkit browser, or I am missing some configuration.

I have tried this with both the 2.0 and 2.5 SDKs.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Report · Nov 15, 2010

Hi,

Tooltips on <a> elements are currently not working in AIR. The problem has already been reported and right now (#1521175) is under investigation.

The tooltips that you are seing in the Bee application are being created by a library that you can find in /lib/tooltips , named wz_tooltip.js developed by http://www.walterzorn.com (the site doesn't appear to be working anymore). In order to get to the lib folder you will have to unpack your air app, you can use a zip archiver to unpack the Bee.air file.

Hope this helps,

Catalin

Report · Sep 26, 2013

I find it ridiculous that 3 years on, this simple bug still hasn't been fixed!

Report · Jan 01, 2014

me too! adobe, please fix this!

Report · Nov 15, 2010

Thanks for the information. It's good to know the defect has been registered.

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HTML Tooltips not showing in AIR HTML Desktop Application

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