Tooltip inconsistency?

[Graham Samuel]

I have an app which often displays a main window (stack) and a couple  
of palettes. There are tooltips associated with objects on the main  
screen and on the palettes. The browse tool is always in use, but  
nevertheless if I click on one of the palettes, then the tooltips in  
the main window don't appear until I click somewhere on this window:  
the palette tooltips are always available.

This doesn't seem to me to be expected behaviour - AFAIK, palettes  
shouldn't take the focus away from a 'toplevel' window. Can anyone  
say what I should be expecting here, and if the problem is as it  
seems, suggest a workaround?

(BTW the documentation doesn't mention this issue, and furthermore  
it's possible to infer from the docs that tooltips will work even on  
windows other than the frontmost one - although in reality, this  
isn't the case.)

TIA

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France