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:-s How many "different method"s are available? :???:

“those” :eek: That implies more than one. Which means I wasn’t alone. So how many of us were there? :icon_smile:

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I have no idea.

You and Hunz.

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Well, this occurred one time yesterday.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1320/ww5614f1tq2.png

No idea what or how it occurred. No other apps were running. I believe I had just opened the nb. What is unique was the Tooltip was behind the Taskbar when the WW forecast window was open. While the above image doesn’t show it the WW window’s button on the Taskbar was not shown as being in an active state.

It has been the only time something unexpected happened since I installed 14f.

BTW While you’re looking at the Tooltip code it would be nice when the Tooltip is open and the weather data is retrieved that the Tooltip’s data would be updated automatically like the WW forecast window’s data rather than having to close and reopen the Tooltip.

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While that would be possible, it might look kind of messy if the tooltip window’s height changes and/or the tooltip window needs to be repositioned due to the new window height :-k

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:-s Why would the height of the Tooltip change with the update of the temp, today’s high & low, observed & download times? The WW forecast window doesn’t change size when the data gets updated.

Even if the window’s size changed couldn’t the program automatically do what the client is manually doing, closing and reopening the window?

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Sure. It would be untooltip-like though :icon_smile:

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And then there is this.

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6510/ww5614f2eo5.png

IE 7 window open in front, WW forecast window open in back, mouse to WW icon, Tooltip opens in front, WW forecast window comes to the front, moving mouse to IE window and clicking on it the window’s Taskbar button indicates the window is active but the WW forecast window is still in front.

I also experienced a case where the Tooltip was behind the IE window and Taskbar. Moving the mouse off the WW icon and then back on resolved the problem.

It might be time to try another of the different methods to display the skinned tooltip window.

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Tooltip behind Taskbar and open IE 7 window.

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5721/ww5614f3tp1.png

BTW I deactivated the Dell utils yesterday (Quickset, DSAgent, DVDLauncher) and the Google Toolbar Notifier, so there isn’t much running that’s not XP. I also checked the Dell support system for IE 7 problems and found none for the final release.

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WW 5.6.15

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5594/ww56151wy8.png

Active window in back of WW window, Tooltip in back of active window and system Taskbar.

Not always but definitely sometimes.

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It’s not just WW, other apps having problems with IE 7:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/column … hp/3643691

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Reproducable

I can reproduce the problem (WinXP Pro SP2, IE7, WW 5.6.16):

  1. Right-click the tasktray icon (the one that shows you the skinned Weather Watcher tooltip) to bring up the Weather Watcher context menu.

  2. Do not choose any option from the context menu. Close the context menu by clicking the clock in the task bar (or any other part of the taskbar).

  3. Move mouse over Weather Watcher icon in tasktray to show the tooltip. Notice the tooltip is under the taskbar.

  4. Open an app, like notepad, and move it’s window where the WW tooltip would appear.

  5. Move mouse over WW icon in tasktray again. WW tooltip is under the new window (notepad, etc) you opened and the taskbar.

Left-clicking the WW icon in the task tray restores the tooltip’s normal behavior (on top of all windows and taskbar).

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Hmm… I tried that, but the tooltip window was ontop at every point :???: