ToolTips in Layout Mode!?!

[Zero Tolerence]

I'm getting a very strange bug in FMP8A. In browse mode, I see tool tips. No big deal right? Except these tool tips I didn't create, and its not over anything but a color background. These tool tips say things like "Queen of Hearts" "Jack of Spades" "Eight of Spades"

I'm not doing ANYTHING with cards, about 6 months ago I built a little 21 application with FM7D, but I haven't opened it in at least 3 months. Sometimes, my mouse even turns into a hand, like when you mouse over a button. But nothing is on my layout!

This still didn't bug me that much, made me laugh really, but those same tool tips are now showing up in Browse mode!

[Ender]

How funny!

Does this happen in all layouts or just this one? You may need to recreate the layout.

[Zero Tolerence]

All of them!

And, like when I'm defineing fields or something and I have a pop up on my screen. If I hold my mouse over the same spot there I get the tool tip too!

[Zero Tolerence]

Oh by the way, I've found that its not a spot on my layout, but rather a spot on my screen that calls the tool tip. I can zoom way in and its still the same spot on my screen.

I have a little spec of dirt on my screen and its right around there. I knew FMI was good, but tool tips on dirt specs!

Wonder if I could change it to "Clean me NOW!"

Edited September 28, 2005 by Guest

[Ender]

I'm guessing there's a card game on your computer that's told the OS there's a tooltip on that spot, but never freed it up afterwards. Maybe a restart would fix it?

[CyborgSam]

Are all Tiger updates installed? Does this happen in standard Mac apps like TextEdit?

I suggest clearing all caches and then restarting (there are some shareware utilities to do this if you're not saavy about where they all are & how to Trash them). Also, check your account's login items to see if some sw installed something you don't know about.

If this persists, use the terminal right after a restart and enter the comand ps -ax. Browse through the list for any processes that don't look like they belong there (usual paths are /System... and /Library, examine others).

If none of this works, create a second user acccount, log into it, and try FileMaker with the same file. If the tooltip appears, the problem is somewhere in /System, /Library, FileMaker.app's path, or possibly the file itself.

If none of this works, let us know, I'll put on my thinking cap :

[Zero Tolerence]

I finally found the problem the other day. It was Tigers Dashboard. Apparently I still had a game up on it from the night before. Anyhow, I closed that and they went away. was very strange though. And it only happened while Filemaker was my active application. Bug with Tiger? or bug with FMP8A?

[CyborgSam]

Weird, very weird. Not the Dashboard/tooltip issue, but the fact that a FileMaker developer has time to play games. I must be doing something wrong (or maybe I'm just getting too old for this s***)... ;)