Fix the issue with Tooltip #168546

yiiim · 2025-05-08T14:36:51Z

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gnprice · 2025-05-17T05:33:28Z

packages/flutter/lib/src/material/tooltip.dart

    final ModalRoute<dynamic>? route = ModalRoute.of(context);
    if (route?.secondaryAnimation != null && route!.secondaryAnimation!.isAnimating) {
      visible = false;
+      if (_listenedRouteSecondaryAnimation != route.secondaryAnimation) {


Thanks for the fix!

This looks like it will successfully ensure that when the route's secondary animation stops, the Tooltip widget gets rebuilt so that it can put the two listener widgets in place.

But what about when the route begins a secondary animation in the first place? (So that route?.secondaryAnimation?.isAnimating changes from null or false to true.) It's not clear to me what would ensure that this widget gets rebuilt for the transition in that direction. I'm not sure how to easily set up something to listen for that, either.

I think that suggests that this whole secondaryAnimation logic shouldn't be in the build method. For any data the build method depends on, we should make sure the dependency is recorded one way or another to guarantee the widget gets rebuilt when the data changes; and this condition seems hard to do that for.

Instead, I think we can leave the two listener widgets in place unconditionally (well, conditioned only on _visible); and this condition can be checked instead at the top of the three pointer callbacks from those widgets. That way we'd always use the up-to-date value.

Or simplifying further: can this look at ModalRoute.isCurrentOf(context) (aka route?.isCurrent), instead of looking at secondaryAnimation at all? (/cc @rkishan516) If I'm correctly understanding the point of this secondaryAnimation logic, then that expresses the same information as we're ultimately aiming to get from secondaryAnimation here.

@gnprice Main idea behind adding secondaryAnimation was, we shouldn't show tooltip while transition is happening. If we are able to achieve that w/o it, we can go for that.

I think the statusListener does not need to save a reference to the secondaryAnimation, and could just watch for a change in the status, and set a bool to true or false based on the status. secondaryAnimation is a ProxyAnimation that sometimes has it's parent animation swapped, so it's possible that it's identity doesn't change when this code might expect. But the status should always be correct on if it's animating or not.

And isCurrent should be false mid-transition, so I believe that using it might work for these two issues as well.

justinmc

This PR also seems to fix #168445. I agree with @gnprice's concerns, but we should double check that this PR continues to fix that issue after any changes are made. I left a minimal repro on the issue.

yiiim · 2025-05-20T02:02:14Z

It has been changed to use ModalRoute.isCurrentOf(context). Apologies for the delayed response due to the time zone difference.

gnprice

Great, thanks! This logic LGTM. Glad to see it passes the same regression test you wrote in the original revision of the PR, plus the existing regression test that #167614 added for the previous issue #167359.

Before we merge, it'd be good for someone to also verify that this fixes the repro @justinmc posted at #168445 (comment) for the current issue #168445.

gnprice · 2025-05-20T05:28:17Z

packages/flutter/lib/src/material/tooltip.dart

+    if (_visible) {
      result = _ExclusiveMouseRegion(
        onEnter: _handleMouseEnter,
        onExit: _handleMouseExit,


One slight change in behavior this causes is that _handleMouseExit no longer gets suppressed when there's another route on top (including during its transition animation / this route's secondary animation).

My suggestion above (#168546 (comment)) was to put the new condition at the top of all three of _handlePointerDown, _handleMouseEnter, and _handleMouseExit, because that matches most closely the effect of suppressing these listener widgets entirely. This version of the PR adds the condition to only the first two of those, therefore causing that slight change in behavior.

This way seems fine to me. It means that even when the route is hidden by another, if there's already a tooltip visible, it'll be possible to hide it by moving the mouse out (or in and then out) of the region. If that situation can happen (and looking at the code, I suspect it can), then that seems like a problem anyway — the tooltip should probably get suppressed by that. This change making _handleMouseExit available doesn't solve that problem… but the change is harmless and will sometimes be helpful.

Due to Google test failures, I also added a condition in _handleMouseExit.

gnprice · 2025-05-20T05:43:37Z

(I've edited the description to say this fixes #168445 too, in order to make that connection explicit, because I believe this will. But that should still get confirmed using the #168445 repro before actually merging this.)

yiiim · 2025-05-20T07:24:12Z

Google tests are still failing, assistance from a Google employee is needed.

justinmc

LGTM 👍 . Confirmed that #168445 is fixed at aa7e230.

The Google tests failure was an infra problem, I've triggered a rerun.

justinmc · 2025-05-20T20:15:03Z

Google testing continues to have infra trouble, I've filed an issue: #169159.

I'll run the Google tests manually or otherwise set this to passing.

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Makes the tooltip interactive if the route is the current route and the route is not animating out. Added `_route` to cache `ModalRoute.of(context)`. Consolidates [Fix the issue with Tooltip](#168546) and [Delay showing tooltip during page transition](#167614) Fix [[Desktop] [Web] [Regression] [3.32] AppBar back - RenderBox was not laid out - TooltipState._buildTooltipOverlay](#169741)

Makes the tooltip interactive if the route is the current route and the route is not animating out. Added `_route` to cache `ModalRoute.of(context)`. Consolidates [Fix the issue with Tooltip](flutter#168546) and [Delay showing tooltip during page transition](flutter#167614) Fix [[Desktop] [Web] [Regression] [3.32] AppBar back - RenderBox was not laid out - TooltipState._buildTooltipOverlay](flutter#169741)

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