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From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at; pd-list List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
Le 2012-03-06 à 14:11:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of
the current mouse location.
A function for setting the current tooltip of a certain window could look into user settings to figure out automatically whether a certain piece of text is to appear in a balloon vs in a label widget in a statusbar frame at the bottom of the window.
There are actually three possibilities-- balloon, statusbar, and window item at the bottom of the patch (which is the current pd-extended implementation).
As I said in the pd-l2ork thread related to this, I've combined two features-- canvas tips and objects tips-- into one concept, but maybe they should be broken out so that GUI-Class/GUI-plugin developers can choose one or the other. (And still, the user could choose status bar vs. balloons.)
-Jonathan
Users would have the choice, while GUI-Class developers and GUI-Plugins developers wouldn't have to even think about it.
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