[Maxaubert]

Owner 2026-11-06: no tooltips in Xcode while zoomed, hover effects fine.

Cause. 0.5.2 hides the real cursor while the pointer moves (the tiny-cursor fix). AppKit's -[NSToolTipManager mouseEnteredToolTip:inWindow:pointInWindow:] checks NSCursor._isHidden once, when the pointer enters the tooltip's rect, and starts no timer if hidden (ipsw dyld disass). Later moves never start one: a zero-distance recheck, one moved by 0.5 pt, one with a delta, and a second recheck were all tried. So no tooltip ever came, on any engine.

Fix: TooltipNudge.

• At rest, one Accessibility look (own queue, 0.25 s timeout): does the element under the pointer, or one of its first ancestors, have tooltip text (AXHelp) in the frontmost app?
• If so, a 4x4 near-transparent, non-activating panel sits under the pointer for 25 ms. The app sees the pointer leave and come back with the cursor shown, and the tooltip starts.
• It fires once per visit, and re-arms when the pointer leaves the element's frame.
• No polling.
• Flashing at once on every stop without the Accessibility look was tried; the owner found it worse (2026-11-07), so it was reverted.

Also.

• The draw engine's hand-over log line now names the window (owner, layer, size).
• 0.5.3.

Tests.

Suite	Result
scripts/tooltip_truth.py (new)	tooltip after every stop on Backdrop and Render at 1x and 3x; one flash per visit; no flash over the SwiftUI half; the probe app stays active
glimpse_truth --pauses	0 frames
churn_truth	pass
e2e_settings_mouse	pass
backdrop_truth	pass
hitch_truth	pass
wind-checks	pass
SwiftUI hover after a stop	unchanged

• e2e_draw: passed 3 times. The flaky Inspect crosshair check failed once; it failed before this change too. Earlier, the edge zoom-out check failed 3 times running and has not come back in 5 runs since. The new log line names the window if it does.
• e2e_hover: not run. Its notification banner can't be posted on this Mac right now, probably a Focus mode.

Not changed: Transform with Wind's cursor keeps the real cursor hidden throughout, so it has no tooltips there.

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