On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote:
About: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1056914&gro...
I did not get exactly what this feature was about, I read the comments and overall description, but something slipped, could you enlighten?
It's the same feature that you ask for, basically.
"tooltips" is the name for transient text that appears over a GUI to help the user (as a reminder, for example). It usually is triggered by mouse-over.
The original tooltip patches for pd were writing directly over the patch and make the text follow the mouse.
My version of it makes the text more visually stable (only is positioned once per appearance of the text) and puts it on an opaque beige rectangle such as how normal tooltips work in other apps. I also made another version of it for "find last error" with a red bg, which I mention only because that's the only related screenshot I can find right now :
http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/find_last_error.png
Well, actually, there was also a name-completion tooltip for a while, before it was turned into another widget, and that was sharing some code with my inlet tooltip code :
http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/completions2.gif
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