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From: Ivica Ico Bukvic ico@vt.edu To: 'Jonathan Wilkes' jancsika@yahoo.com; 'p1k53l workshop' piksel@piksel.no; pd-list@iem.at; linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org Cc: Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 2:09 PM Subject: RE: [PD] ANN: pd-l2ork v.20120304 and new disis_wiimote external now available
Sounds great. I'll try it out in a bit.
Just curious-- if I send [tip 1 Hello Canvas( to a canvas, where on the canvas does the tooltip appear?
-Jonathan
Next to the cursor. We can alter that if this proves to be unintuitive.
Well, I personally prefer the "status bar" approach than tooltips that nestle up next to my mouse-- that's why I always printed out the tooltip at the bottom of the patch (or at the top if the user is mousing at the bottom). This is basically the Firefox approach seen when you mouse over a link on a web page and a little label appears at the bottom right of the patch (or bottom left, depending on where your mouse is).
However, I think I combined two related features that may not belong together:
- tooltips
- canvas tips
Even though it's not my preference, your tooltip placement seems to work well and is probably the clearest placement for the new user (who will probably benefit most from using them).
Btw-- one thing I notice is that a) I can generate a tip for the object itself while the inlet appears highlighted, and b) once I generate an inlet tip, if I move the mouse horizontally to the right the inlet will continue to be highlighted even though the mouse is no longer over it.
However, I think canvas tips should still be placed at the bottom of the canvas, similar to Firefox url links at the bottom of the page. Two important use cases off the top of my head:
- tutorial where the text gets displayed in reaction to user input. For example, the
tip can tell the user how to spin a number box, and after the user spins it the tip can change to let the user know they did it correctly, and move on to the next part of the tutorial. In general this can make tutorial text a lot more interactive. 2) a revised pddplink could use it to display the actual link location when link text is displayed.
-Jonathan
Best wishes,
Ico