Over-persistant info-tips in D6 CHB

By way of introduction: I've found that I don't like working in D6 nearly as
much as D5, and I'm trying to work out what the little changes are that are
spoiling the experience. I've just worked out one of them.

In D6 there seems (at least on my machine/configuration) to be some sort of
problem with the info-tips in the method list. The popup info itself is fine,
but sometimes it just won't go away. For instance, say I open a CHB on Object.
I can hover the mouse over _deepCopy: or == to get a nice little popup. Good.
Now select _deepCopy: and move the mouse outside the window. Use the arrow
keys to navigate down the method list. When I reach the last visible element
(#basicAt:put:) I get a popup into tip even though the mouse is nowhere nearby.
If I now use the arrow keys to navigate back up the list, every selection
insists on displaying its own tip, hiding the method name below and completely
spoiling my morning ;-) From then on the popups don't go away until I switch
to another window.

I know it's only a small thing, but it's like sand in your sandwiches....

(The full MethodBrowser has the same problem in D5, but since that's not a
window I spend a long time in at one time, the problem is much easier to
ignore.)

Incidentally, I find I'm missing having the selected method's categories listed
in the CHB's title bar (or somewhere). I will definitely add that (or maybe
only the virtual categories) back into my custom CHB when (if I ever do) I
really switch to using D6.

-- chris



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