rich:component and rich:tooltip interaction

[genrico]

Hi there,

Since RichFaces' last update (4.2.2) dealing with rich:tooltip problems, the rich:tooltip is now using the Javascript Service feature from RichFaces instead of the classic Javascript implementation. My problem is that, since then, my tooltip isn't working.

I have a notification system using a4j:push that update a mail counter and notify the user with a tooltip.

Here is my notificationPanel.xhtml

<a4j:push address="notificationAddress#{uiNotifications.login}" ondataavailable="updateNotificationsInformations(event.rf.data)">
    <a4j:ajax event="dataavailable" execute="@this" render="@none" />
</a4j:push>

<a4j:jsFunction name="updateNotificationsInformations" execute="@this" limitRender="true" action="#{uiNotifications.updateNotifications}"
    oncomplete="#{rich:component('newNotificationsTooltip')}.show()" render="notificationsPanel,mailCounter,newNotificationsTooltip" >
    <a4j:param name="param1" assignTo="#{uiNotifications.idNotification}" />
</a4j:jsFunction>

And my tooltip is in controlNotificationsIcon.xhtml

<h:panelGroup id="newNotificationsContainer" layout="block" />

<h:form>
    <rich:tooltip id="newNotificationsTooltip" styleClass="tooltip"
        target="newNotificationsContainer" layout="block" attached="false"        
        hideDelay="2000">
        <span> Vous avez 1 nouveau message.</span>
    </rich:tooltip>
</h:form>

On the javascript console of my browser, i have this error

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'show' of undefined
(anonymous function)
serverEventHandlerrichfaces.js.html:499
curryrichfaces.js.html:475
richfaces.createJSFEventsAdapterrichfaces.js.html:428
sendEventjsf.js.html:1442
responsejsf.js.html:2079
richfaces.queue.responserichfaces-queue.js.html:413
jsf.ajax.responserichfaces-queue.js.html:50
onCompletejsf.js.html:1227
req.xmlReq.onreadystatechange

Well, seems the rich:component doesn't find my tooltip, but I don't understand why. It was working perfectly in the previous versions.

Any ideas ?

[genrico]

Well, I have been investigating recently about this problem. In fact, it's not the rich:component that is the cause of the problem, but rather the use of the "show()" method (or "hide()") in a <a4j:jsFunction>. If I use the show() on a tooltip in another component (the push, for exemple), it's working.

I'm trying to find a solution to force the tooltip to show (and hide) outside of a jsFunction, but it may not be that trivial.