The Long Lost Solution to Dissapearing or Failing to Show, Tool Tips Information

[Anonymous]

(I added an attachment of the tool tips information screenshot in fusion 360 so it clear about what I'm talking about, so you may want to check that out first before reading further.)

I searched the internet about this topic when I noticed my tool tips kept quickly disappearing (or not showing up at all) when I hovered my mouse cursor over a design function tool in the menus of the menu bar and what I found was suggestions about:

- restarting ones computer
- re-installing Fusion 360 all together
- changing a related setting in the preferences
- and some other solution ideas I forget

I didn't want to do a full re-install of Fusion 360 so I thought there must be a reason this is happening that I can find out. I also learned in my internet searches that this was a common problem for many Fusion 360 users and it wasn't really something I had done but was rather a bug in the software. I wondered what that bug must be related to. Then an idea struck me. I asked: "What if the area (or position) you hover your mouse over the tool select region makes a difference on whether or not the tool tips will appear at all or actually stay visible once it pops up?" So I began testing this inquiry and theory by moving my mouse over different areas of the selection region of certain tools. My intuition told me that the left side of the tool selection area would be the most likely area that would respond to the mouse cursor hovering over it. Sure enough as I slid my mouse in from the left side of the selection area for the design tools eventually I found a sweet spot just at the very left edge of the tool graphic icon and sometimes with certain tools the mouse cursor had to be positioned just at the bottom or top of the tools graphic icon and then the tool tips information would appear and actually stay visible! Problem solved I thought. However, what was I going to do to fix it. I just happened to find a solution that worked for me when I wanted to learn a bit more about certain tools I was unfamiliar with and I would use my mouse cursor position method to get the tool tips to appear and remain visible until I finished reading and moved the cursor somewhere else.

However, I've noticed that Fusion 360 has done two or three updates since I was having this problem with my tool tips and now when I went to go check it, the tool tips were working properly again no matter where I positioned my cursor over the selection area of a design tool on the menu bar. So I don't know if the recent updates have fixed this tool tip information problem or not. What I can tell you is that its not an issue with some time feature bug in the software for how long the tool tips are supposed to stay visible, its a bug in the part of the software that isn't allowing the whole entire region of the tool selection areas to respond to the mouse cursor hovering over it. Like I said the solution I found was to put the mouse cursor in a precise place to get the tools to stay visible long enough to read through. So it was an issue with the details of the design tool selection area and not some more complicated deeper problem.

Well hopefully those updates fixed the problem. I don't need the tool tips much anymore but I know new users will and it should be working properly to help them along. With that said, I still wanted to share the information I discovered to make sure that the bug was most certainly fixed entirely which would only be possible by recognizing the information about the design tool selection areas. Perhaps Autodesk has not yet realized this information I am sharing here and provided a fix which was more like some kind of patch that forced the tool tips to function correctly when the real fix was just a value setting in the coding settings of the software.

I hope this discovery of mine helps in some way related to this vanishing tool tips problem.