Re: Cancel Button in a FileSelection + Tooltips on labels

["Eric Gavaldo" <egavaldo europe shiva com>]

Thanks Erik ... but some concerns:

>> ******* Second Question:
>> Why tooltips are not working on "non-active" widgets like labels or
progressbar
>> ??? I would need it ... How to do ?

>Hmm, I don't know. My user interface intuition tells me because it is not
>the Right Thing [tm] to do. A label should be self explaining or it should
>explain another UI element; if not, you put the wrong text in it. A
>progressbar without a label explaining what it indicates makes no sense:
>asking the user to put his mouse on top of it is an example of bad
>interface design.
>
>Try to get a copy of the Sun/AT&T OpenLook style guide: the OpenLook
>toolkit is old, but the user interface concepts described in it are still
>valid today. Find a place with old Sun Sparc machines: every developer's
>kit came with the book, so there should be plenty of them left.

Let me explain a little bit ... I already developped the base program: it's a
PPP calls generator/Statistics collector/Data simulator etc... With one PC, I
can simulate at least 60 users transfering data & I am now writing the GUI for
that:
SO ... the "monitor" section of the notebook display a HUGE tab of values (to
get a global view of the results / stats for each users).
I've got 1 label for each column to explain what it is about ... But for
displaying everything on a 800*600 env. the labels are only 3-4 char max. The
tooltip were a good way to explain more precisely these 3 "non-comprehensive"
characters for the common user.

That's why I think this is the only solution !

(for another section of the notebook I use a box with lot of stuff in it that I
can go over using a scrollbar .... but for the section of interest, I absolutely
need to have all info in one eye shot)

PS: the progress bar was just an example, only label interests me ;-)

Thanks anyway !
EricG.