tooltips

As we've discussed before, tooltips are not especially useful with a
stylus-based device. Over the last few weeks, though, it's become
apparent that they are actually an active annoyance on machines like an
iPAQ. Taking gpe-calendar as an example, if you tap on the day-view
icon in the toolbar the the X pointer will be warped to that location on
the screen and it will stay there until you tap somewhere else. After a
short timeout, the tooltip will pop up - to get rid of it, you have to
move the pointer to some harmless area on the screen.

Any ideas what we can do about this?

p.
Received on Tue Jul 09 2002 - 13:44:08 EDT