Force a Java Tooltip to Appear

Question

Given a JTextField (or any JComponent for that matter), how would one go about forcing that component\'s designated tooltip to appear, without any

Answer 1

For me works the similar version stated above (instead of Timer I used SwingUtilities and invokeLater approach):

private void showTooltip(Component component)
{
    final ToolTipManager ttm = ToolTipManager.sharedInstance();
    final int oldDelay = ttm.getInitialDelay();
    ttm.setInitialDelay(0);
    ttm.mouseMoved(new MouseEvent(component, 0, 0, 0,
            0, 0, // X-Y of the mouse for the tool tip
            0, false));
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
    {
        @Override
        public void run() 
        {
            ttm.setInitialDelay(oldDelay);
        }
    });
}