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"Boba" <Boba@somewhere.world> wrote:

>"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:43a94c5e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>> ...
>> This is normal Window's behavior.
>> ...
>I think this is 'normal' VCL behaviour, and one of those few cases
>when I would not blame MS for that. Boba

Just checking the programs currently open on my desktop:

  Eclipse          : no tip
  Agent            : all buttons disable! (no tip)
  Opera            : shows tip even when not active
  Internet Explorer: no tip
  CodeWright       : no tip
  Visual SourceSafe: no tip
  Windows Explorer : no tip
  Word 2000        : no tip

So, it would appear that normal behaviour is probably for the tooltip
not to be shown when a program is not active. That the tip is not shown
in a VCL program is indeed down to the VCL, because it _can_ be shown,
but it doesn't appear to me to be usual.

It's also apparently normal behaviour for floating toolbars to disappear
when their owner is inactive. In general, an inactive program should
show no more windows than need be, to avoid too much screen clutter.

Alan Bellingham
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