Tooltip occluded by heavyweight editor component
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Description
### Description
When a navigator element displays a tooltip that intersects a component displaying a heavyweight component, the tooltip is occluded by the heavyweight component. This code comment indicates an API should be created to handle this situation. https://github.com/emilianbold/netbeans-releases/blob/2fd6dc84c187e3c79a959b3ddb4da1a9703659c7/openide.explorer/src/org/openide/explorer/view/CustomPopupFactory.java#L94-L96
### Use case/motivation
Change getPopup() detects if the popup intersects a heavyweight component and act appropriately.
### Related issues
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### Are you willing to submit a pull request?
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with openide.explorer/src/org/openide/explorer/view/CustomPopupFactory.java, especially the comment near line 94 and the getPopup() method. Determine the API needed when a popup intersects a heavyweight component, then verify that getPopup() handles the situation appropriately.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100