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Tip Strip Collision in the top right corner

Beyond-minor annoyance which I suspect is a Windows thing more than a LabVIEW one, but it is possible to obtain two simultaneous tip strips if you get the pointer on the close box of a window (I suppose this also works for minimize and maximize) and the pointer also happens to spill over a panel control with tip strip enabled:

 

Screen Shot 2016-08-28 at 11.49.00.png

 

My screen capture is not set to display the pointer, but it is the usual Windows arrow and it is located pretty much in the center of the close box.

I also realized that you don't need to bring the cursor over the box, but simply on the window bar below the box to have it highlight and spit a tip strip, which does get in the way:

Screen Shot 2016-08-28 at 11.59.36.png

There doesn't seem to be such a problem with controls themselves: if there are two very close controls on the FP, as long as the tip of the pointer is on a given control, it doesn't matter if the arrow spills over another control. Only the tip strip of the first control is shown.

 

 

Tested on Windows 7. Does it survive the upgrade to newer Windows versions?

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JY
Application Engineer, RF and Communications
National Instruments
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LabVIEW 2016 64bit on Windows 7

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