Toolbar button tooltip doesn't seem to be up to date

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Hi there.

I've got a button on one of my toolbars for which the tooltip text is mostly different from what it should be. This is the button:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="icon" icon_size="large" label_pos="bottom" separate="yes" textcol="none" type="three_button"> <label>Dropbox Folder</label> <icon1>E:\Users\Neil\Pictures\Icons\Apps\DropBox-32.png,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>Go e:\Users\Neil\Dropbox\Open_University\</instruction> </function> <button backcol="none" display="icon" icon_size="large" label_pos="bottom" textcol="none"> <label>Dropbox Folder</label> <icon1>E:\Users\Neil\Pictures\Icons\Apps\DropBox-32.png,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>Go e:\Users\Neil\Dropbox</instruction> </function> </button> <button backcol="none" display="icon" icon_size="large" label_pos="bottom" textcol="none"> <label>OU Folder</label> <icon1>E:\Users\Neil\Pictures\Icons\Apps\DropBox-32.png,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>Go e:\Users\Neil\Dropbox\Open_University\</instruction> </function> </button> </button>
I've attached a screenshot of the mouseover tooltip that appears. As you can see from the button code, there are no tooltips defined, and yet I get old text (specifically all that default Dropbox text and the creation date of the folder) appearing when I mouse over.

If I put some tip text into the left/right buttons, then it is displayed as expected, but when I clear it out again, the old text reappears. It persists after I close and reopen Opus, too. As far as I'm aware, this is the only button that's affected in this way.

Does Opus have a cache for this type of text? If so, how do I clear it? If not, then does anyone know why this text is appearing?

Thanks.

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It is not cached, but generated automatically.

Buttons which run the Go command will show tooltips about the folders they go to automatically, if no tooltip is explicitly defined.

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That makes sense, but if I look at the actual folder, I can't see that text anywhere in the properties. It doesn't appear as part of the folder's tooltip, but it looks like that tip's intended to show different information anyway.

A little more thought and testing and I see that the "date created" stuff is the default tooltip for folders which have no other tooltip. I thought that the LMB's text could perhaps be coming from the Dropbox icon, but I'm using a .png file for that, which I think I created manually from a source other than the standard icon, so that seems unlikely. I looked at the Dropbox .exe file, which seems to contain the default icons too, and still don't see that text anywhere obvious to me.

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If you want something else to appear there, just put it into the tooltip field for the appropriate button and it will override the automatically generated text.

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Yeah, I'm aware and have done it in this case, just wasn't sure if it was something odd I'd done or a bug somewhere.

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Don't worry; it's not a bug or anything you did wrong. It's an automatic feature for buttons which go to folders and don't have explicit tooltips defined.