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evolution
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USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2006 :  01:18:48 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is in VS.NET 2003 with a C++ solution, and the tooltips that I'm talking about are the VAX intellisense tooltips that appear when you hover over a symbol.

So at some point today, something must have "went screwy" and now when I hover over a symbol, the tooltip outline appears but it is completely transparent - there is nothing in the little square that should contain the declaration of the symbol. All other functions of VAX seem to be working fine - if I click on the symbol, VA View updates correctly; if I place the cursor inside the symbol and do Go-to-implementation, that works as well (well, it works as well as it does normally). Also, if I mouse over a symbol when debugging, the value of the symbol [if in scope] appears as well.

I tried clearing the cache files, rebuilding the symbol database, several restarts of VS.NET [after making sure that the process was indeed gone in task manager], but I'm still getting transparent tooltips. It's starting to drive me batty.

Has anyone heard of this before? Are there any other "secret" files that VAX uses that I could possibly be the culprit?


Other plug-ins:
Xbox 360 XDK
Incredibuild
Intel VTune


VA_X.dll file version 10.3.1525.0 built 2006.06.22
Licensed to:
VA X: [email protected] (1-user license) Support ends 2006.11.21
VAOpsWin.dll version 1.3.3.3
VATE.dll version 1.0.5.7
DevEnv.exe version 7.10.3077.0
msenv.dll version 2.0.3424.0
Font: Courier New 13(Pixels)
Comctl32.dll version 5.82.2900.2180
Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
2 processors

Platform: Custom
Stable Includes:
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\include;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\atlmfc\\include;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\PlatformSDK\\include\\prerelease;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\PlatformSDK\\include;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\sdk\\v1.1\\include;

Library Includes:
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\atlmfc\\src\\mfc;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\atlmfc\\src\\atl;
c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\\vc7\\crt\\src;

Other Includes:



what could possibly go wrong? :D

jpizzi
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USA
642 Posts

Posted - Jul 29 2006 :  01:31:02 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
People were complaining about the tooltips covering their code, so we added that feature

The only guess I have is that somehow, the colors got changed. You mention restarts of the IDE, how about the machine? Long shot...

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evolution
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USA
105 Posts

Posted - Jul 29 2006 :  6:54:10 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes, after a reboot tooltips were back to normal.

what could possibly go wrong? :D
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feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 30 2006 :  1:32:38 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
are they tooltips still drawn correctly? or was this only a temporary fix?

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