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Console 3.0.0.10: every tooltip lives ten seconds at most; the keyboard row tip is closed with the row - #85

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On a filtered device list an operator saw two row bubbles at once, for devices no longer in the list, and they stayed until the console exited. Only one of them is the list's native info tip that 3.0.0.8/3.0.0.9 close. The other is WinForms' own tip for the row that has the keyboard focus (ListView.KeyboardToolTip, internal): it closes only when the focus moves, never when the row is rebuilt (the ten-second refresh) or filtered away under it.

Reproduced on a bare ListView (ShowItemToolTips, Windows 11): Down key → bubble; Items.Clear() + refill → the bubble stays; KeyboardToolTip.Hide(list) closes it; the sweeper below closes it after ~11 s.

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  • TooltipLifetime (new): the main form enumerates its UI thread's tooltip windows (tooltips_class32, bare and WinForms-registered) once a second. One visible for ten seconds is closed (TTM_POP, then SW_HIDE if still up); all of them are closed the moment the console loses the active window; what a sweep closes is redrawn beneath. Every bubble of the console lives ten seconds at most.
  • DevicesView: before the rows are rebuilt the keyboard tip is closed too (reflection on the internal property, cosmetic on failure); the button tips get AutoPopDelay 10 s.
  • MainForm: creates and disposes the sweeper. Console 3.0.0.9 → 3.0.0.10; changelog.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Device-row tooltips now close after 10 seconds instead of remaining visible indefinitely.
    • Tooltips close when the console loses focus. Keyboard-focus tooltips are also cleared when device rows are filtered or rebuilt.
    • The console now checks for lingering tooltip windows every second and closes those that have been open for 10 seconds.
  • Updates
    • The console version is now 3.0.0.10.

…rd row tip is closed with the row

A second bubble with the row texts turned out to be WinForms' own tip for the row that has the keyboard focus (ListView.KeyboardToolTip), which closes only when the focus moves - never when the row is rebuilt or filtered away under it, so it stayed on a filtered list next to the native one. Reproduced on a bare ListView: Down key, rows rebuilt, the bubble stays.

TooltipLifetime sweeps the UI thread's tooltip windows once a second from the main form: one visible for ten seconds is closed, all of them the moment the console loses the active window, and what a sweep closes is redrawn beneath. The device list also closes the keyboard tip before it rebuilds its rows, and its button tips get the same ten-second cap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The device list now closes its keyboard-focus tooltip along with the native list tooltip. The main form tracks visible tooltip windows and closes them after 10 seconds or when the form deactivates. The project version changes to 3.0.0.10.

Changes: Tooltip lifetime handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Device-list tooltip cleanup
src/RemoteClient/Views/DevicesView.cs
The row tooltip now has a 10-second delay. PopItemToolTip also hides the list’s keyboard-focus tooltip.
Form-wide tooltip lifetime
src/RemoteClient/TooltipLifetime.cs, src/RemoteClient/MainForm.cs, CHANGELOG.md, src/RemoteClient/RemoteClient.csproj
TooltipLifetime scans visible tooltip windows every second and closes them after 10 seconds or when the form deactivates. MainForm initializes and disposes the manager. The release notes describe this behavior, and the project version changes to 3.0.0.10.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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The tooltip changes are mergeable with awareness that a rapidly redisplayed tip might close early in an unconfirmed same-position case. The device-list cleanup matches the inspected WinForms behavior.

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src/RemoteClient/TooltipLifetime.cs: 1

16-16: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

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Remove or use CloseAll.

The <summary> on CloseAll says the list calls it before it rebuilds its rows. DevicesView does not call it. DevicesView.PopItemToolTip does the work directly, and MainForm keeps _tooltips private. The comment is wrong, and the method is unused.

Delete CloseAll, or correct the summary.

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src/RemoteClient/Views/DevicesView.cs: 1

364-365: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

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Cache the KeyboardToolTip reflection lookup and confirm it exists on net10.

PopItemToolTip calls typeof(ListView).GetProperty("KeyboardToolTip", NonPublic) on every call. The call runs on each RenderList, each refresh tick, and each mouse leave. This is a small reflection cost, but it is repeated.

If the internal property is renamed or removed in a future .NET version, the lookup returns null and the pattern match fails. The keyboard tip then stays open silently. TooltipLifetime still closes it after ten seconds, so the failure is bounded.

Cache the PropertyInfo in a static readonly field.

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+    private static readonly System.Reflection.PropertyInfo? KeyboardToolTipProp =
+        typeof(ListView).GetProperty("KeyboardToolTip", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
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-            if (typeof(ListView).GetProperty("KeyboardToolTip", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic)?.GetValue(_list) is ToolTip keyboardTip)
+            if (KeyboardToolTipProp?.GetValue(_list) is ToolTip keyboardTip)
                 keyboardTip.Hide(_list);
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Review comments at @src/RemoteClient/TooltipLifetime.cs:
- Around line 55-56: Update the tooltip lifetime tracking around `_seen` and
`Close(h)` so a successful close clears that window handle’s recorded start time
before a later tooltip display can reuse it. To enforce `MaxLife` separately for
displays that begin between sweeps, track tooltip show events and reset the
corresponding lifetime entry on each show; establish an appropriate show-event
hook in the existing implementation rather than assuming the window handle
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Comment thread src/RemoteClient/TooltipLifetime.cs Resolved
…w; CloseAll removed

A ToolTip keeps one window for everything it shows, so a display that replaced another on the same window between two sweeps inherited its start time and was closed early. A display is told from the previous one by its place on screen, and a closed window's record is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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