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Empty tooltips showing on screen
See original GitHub issueWhen a component has an empty tooltip set, an empty tooltip bubble is drawn. For example:
JButton c = new JButton("Tooltip Test");
c.setToolTipText("");
Setting the tooltip text to null disables this. This is quite different form other LaFs, where an empty tooltip is not shown.
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So generally I would recommend using
nullfor toolTipText instead of empty strings 😉@Poivin maybe you did not notice it because is is a small dot hidden by the mouse pointer. Move the mouse slightly to the right and you probably see it (Java 8):
Windows LaF (Java 8):
In Java 14 the empty tips are much larger and not hidden by the mouse pointer:
