"standards" for tooltips?

From: "sean" <s_machin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Apr 2005 19:06:54 -0700

All,

I'm working on a large Swing app. which has inconsistent use of
tooltips. In fact I have to address a bug report complaining about the
inconsistencies of the tooltips. Some of our widgets display "helpful
text" as tooltips, others display the full details on the chosen value
(e.g. full pathname of a file chosen) etc.

Is there any documented standard for how best to use tooltips?

TIA,
Sean

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