[Fwd: numeric keypad, tooltips/whatsthis key]

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Cross-posted to wrong address first time...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems

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• From: Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>
• To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
• Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, gnome-access-list gnome org, earl johnson eng
• Subject: Re: numeric keypad, tooltips/whatsthis key
• Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:07:51 +0100

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> The actual gtktooltips changes aren't really right; the tooltip
> doesn't pop down in a coherent way. Calum suggests that the tooltip
> pop down on Escape or focus switch. This is really painful to
> implement, because doing it on Escape requires the tip to grab
> keyboard, and doing it on focus switch requires events to go to the
> window the tooltip is popped up for. Probably we can't just pop down
> on any key event since some may be needed for accessible navigation.

Just to make things even more complicated, the tip should only really
pop down when you press Escape if it was popped up by pressing Ctrl+F1
in the first place-- if it was popped up by mousing over the control,
the subsequent Escape keypress should be handled by the control or its
parent, not the Tooltip itself...

(I think this is how Java implements it, anyway... perhaps Earl or
somebody with a running Java app handy could confirm?!)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson ireland sun com    Desktop Engineering Group
http://www.sun.ie                      +353 1 819 9771

Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems

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