Re: bubble help???

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From: Dwayne Mercredi
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00

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In AWT, the Z-order is undefined for heavyweight components.

Two solutions: go to swing, which gives you tooltips for free,
or use a java.awt.Window instead of a Panel to show your tip.
If you are in an applet, "unsigned applet window" will show
on the bottom of the tooltip in this case.

Thomas Franke wrote:
> 
> I want to add a panel to a frame on_mouse_over a button dynamically -
> like bubble help.
> The Panel should be OVER all other frame Elements, but the buttons added
> 
> before are
> always on top so i would not see the help text.
> Any Idea????
> 
> Thank you thomas
> 
> (I already implemented a thread, a panel that do what they are supposed
> to be done)

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Dwayne Mercredi
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