Tooltips disappear after a period in BOY

[willrogers]

If you hover over a widget in BOY, you get a tooltip. After a while (and quite possibly while you are still reading it) it disappears.

I would much prefer it if it stayed until you moved the mouse. Does anyone know how we might do this?

[kasemir]

The org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ToolTip, at least the one for Linux, has a DELAY constant which is used internally, and there is a setAutoHide() method that looks like it accomplishes what you want.

[willrogers]

A bit more digging suggests that we use GEF tooltips not SWT ones.

It seems that the ability to configure tooltip time was added in draw2d 3.10 but I haven't yet figured out where I'd plug it into BOY.