Heavy Tooltip Displaying Repeatedly when using Custom TooltipLocation

Question

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If you display a tooltip so that it is both heavy weight and it is directly under the cursor location the tooltip will display over and over. It will display initially and then hide after a delay, then will display again after a delay. It will do this over and over unendingly.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
public class HeavyWeightToolTipBug extends JPanel
     public Point getToolTipLocation(MouseEvent event)
          Point p = event.getPoint();
          p.translate(-5, -5);
          return p;
     public static void main(String[] args)
          HeavyWeightToolTipBug panel = new HeavyWeightToolTipBug();
          panel.setToolTipText("A really really long string so that a medium weight popup window will be used for the tooltip instead of a light weight popup window");
          JFrame frame = new JFrame();
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
          frame.setSize(400, 300);
          frame.setVisible(true);
}

Answer 1

The whole point of my translate was to put the heavyweight tooltip directly under my cursor. My real world example is that I have a table and I would like a tooltip to display the cell value text if the user mouses over it. But instead of displaying the tooltip below the curser (x axis) I'd like the tooltip to display right over the top of the cell: which is directly under my curser (z-axis)
This seems to work fine for me provided the ToolTipManager uses a lightweight tooltip window. It's only a problem is if my cell value is so long that the ToolTipManager is forced to use a heavyweight component.
I'm using jdk1.5 and if I set the tooltip to:
    panel.setToolTipText("A Short Tooltip");my example works correctly because the ToolTipManager uses a lightweight component. The ToolTipManager can use a lightweight tooltip window because the entire tooltip window can be displayed within the bounds of the JFrame.
So, one might ask, "why is your cell value so dang large". Well, my UI is ultimately displaying values from a database that I have no control over and in this case the field I'm displaying is a CLOB that has a very long peice of text in it.