Re: Tooltips

[sun <as387 yfn ysu edu>]

Preben Randhol wrote:

> | Well, to resurrect a VERY old suggestion of mine, I'd like a grey's-anatomy
> | style set of buttons I can hold down to get tooltip descriptions to pop up
> | on EVERYTHING, and STAY up until a nontooltip area was clicked.  (Clicking a
> | tooltip would link to a helpfile, which could then link to a screenplay of
> | the appropriate feature.)
> |
> | I hate "what's this feature, hold over 3 sec, ok next, hold over, ok
> | next"...
> |
> | The stickytips should be translucent, btw.
> 
> Let's not change everything shall we? Tooltips are fine. Read the
> manual use text on buttons etc. and you don't have to put the mouse
> over every icon.

an improvement i can think of would be a very simple one: in the "Global
properties..." dialog off the panel is a section, "Icon Tooltips" with a
single choice: enable tooltips. let's just stick one more choice in
there: tooltip delay, with a settable time in milliseconds, which can be
dropped to zero so we don't have to wait to see what it is, but can
mouse down a whole row of icons and see what each does very quickly.
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