Editor hover can overflow to top of screen

[gggustafson]

I am using flutter/dart in VS Code on Windows 7 SP1

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When I hover over a recognized object, a tooltip popup appears. A problem is that if the object over which I hover is close to the top of the screen, the tooltip appears too far up; its top contents are hidden; and I have to reposition the object lower on the screen.

The first image displays the tooltip positioning problem. I have hovered over Column (line 78) where Column is near the top of the screen.

The second image displays the tooltip when Column has been scrolled downward towards the center of the screen.

It appears that tooltips require 9 lines. So through simple computations, the tooltip could be placed so that all 9 lines of the tooltip appear near the object it is discussing without clipping.

[vscodebot]

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• Visual Studio Code 1.26.1 uses \bin instead of \lib (#57123)

[gggustafson]

Since I am using VS Code 1.28, the vscodebot once again provides worthless information. The suggested issue has absolutely nothing to do with the issue I raise!!

[vscodebot]

This issue is caused by an extension, please file it with the repository (or contact) the extension has linked in its overview in VS Code or the marketplace for VS Code. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[egamma]

The bot can be understood since this issue is about the flutter extension, please file the issue against this repository.

[DanTup]

@egamma I'm the author of the extension and advised @gggustafson to post here. I don't know how the extension can control this (I actually raised a similar bug years ago -> #10051).

If you believe I can fix this, please give me a pointer.

[egamma]

@DanTup I´m deeply sorry you are absolutely right.

[joaomoreno]

/duplicate #57088

[vscodebot]

Thanks for creating this issue! We figured it's covering the same as another one we already have. Thus, we closed this one as a duplicate. You can search for existing issues here. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[gggustafson]

This issue is not a duplicate of #57088. That issue was concerned with the size of the popup. This issue regards the positioning of the popup. This issue is the same as #10051. But that was reported on Aug 2, 2016 by the extension author. It has not been fixed!!!

[joaomoreno]

@gggustafson Thanks for the heads up.