Name: rl16235 Date: 06/21/2000


java version "1.3.0rc2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0rc2-Y)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0rc2-Y, mixed mode)

JMenuItem does not use the tooltip text supplied with the Action object
assigned to the menu item. Normally, components set the tooltip text with the
Action's "SHORT_DESCRIPTION" parameter. JMenuItem seems to be the one which
misses this feature. However you're still able to set the tolltip using the
item.setToolTipText() method.

The most surprising thing is that JMenuItem's superclass AbstractButton DOES
have the code which extracts tooltip text from an Action object (see the
configurePropertiesFromAction() method), but the JMenuItem class overrides this
method to do exactly the same except for setting the tooltip text. I don't
understand the reason for that.

Here's a piece of AbstractButton.java:

protected void configurePropertiesFromAction(Action a) {
    setText((a!=null?(String)a.getValue(Action.NAME):null));
    setIcon((a!=null?(Icon)a.getValue(Action.SMALL_ICON):null));
    setEnabled((a!=null?a.isEnabled():true));

    // DP: the following line is missing in JMenuItem.java
    setToolTipText((a!=null?(String)a.getValue(Action.SHORT_DESCRIPTION):null));

    if (a != null) {
        Integer i = (Integer)a.getValue(Action.MNEMONIC_KEY);
        if (i != null)
            setMnemonic(i.intValue());
    }
}

###@###.### 2000-06-21
 Could be related to bug id: 4238727. This is closed as will not fix.
Opening anew bug report.
(Review ID: 103485)
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