Tooltip placement for dual monitors
ggeier
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Is there a way to force a tool-tip to be placed on the same monitor when hovering over a function/column/etc. with the mouse? The issue I'm experiencing is the tool-tip often displays on my other monitor, this makes it hard to read and impossible to click on. If I hover to the left to click on the tool-tip, it immediately goes away.
Below is a screenshot of how it sometimes looks:
If I play around with it I can get it to display on the same monitor:
Below is a screenshot of how it sometimes looks:
If I play around with it I can get it to display on the same monitor:
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I can see this happening as well as well - I had to remove the object explorer and get the object I was mousing over to the left of the editor window so that part of the popup would appear on the other screen.
As you have seen, to avoid this you need to make sure none of the popup will run over onto the other monitor or alternatively put the SSMS window on the left monitor so the popup hits the left edge of all desktops.
I've escalated this to the development team and will come back to you with further information.
Kind regards,
Alex
Have you visited our Help Center?
I've raised this with the team as SP-7511 but they have indicated that it is low priority at the moment and is not likely to be fixed in the near future.
In the meantime, you can work around the issue as stated above and/or as you've seen with indentation.
Kind regards,
Alex
Have you visited our Help Center?
Any way you could add a note suggesting this, to at least get just the directionality fixed in the near future (I'd hope it'd be a one-line change) and leave fixing the multiple-displays issue on the backlog?
Hopefully someone see's this and if nothing else is able to implement the code change SimonBarnes suggested above, to just shift the tooltip from displaying to the left of the cursor to displaying to the right of the cursor.