PathOfBuildingCommunity / PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding

Always show tooltips the same place.

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Description

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Is your feature request related to a problem?

When mousing over anything that will show a tooltip (item, gem, passives) the tooltip will often "bounce" from one side to the other (or from top to bottom) when you mouse over the next "thing". This is often worst when it comes to items.

Describe the solution you'd like

Have the tooltip stay in the same place when mousing over "things" that will have a tooltip pop-up. This could be done by forcing the tooltip to always show up top-right of the mouse (or bottom-left etc).

Describe alternatives you've considered

Instead of having the item attached to the mouse you could have it show up in a certain location, for example always show up in a pane at the right side.
If you use this solution I would recommend adding an option to enable/disable it as the mouse over thing is something everyone is used to cause its like that in the game :)

Additional context

To replicate this, set your resolution to 1920x1080 and open up items, Mouse over Abberath's Hooves and Abberath's Horn. The tooltip will jump from top to bottom.
To replicate it where its from left to right go to gems and mouse over for example "Spirit offering" (right) and then "Zealotry" (left).

Bottom:
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Top:
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Right:
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Left:
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Extremely quick sketch up of how it could look:
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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing the tooltip jumps at 1920x1080 with the listed items and gems, then locate the tooltip positioning logic. Done means tooltips remain consistently placed while moving between items, gems, and passives without obscuring the relevant content.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
lua
Domain
desktop, game-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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