Re: tooltips

Is it possible to have the tooltips appear when you left-click and
*hold* (so that simply hovering over it does nothing?).

This way people could still get help in an almost intuitive way.

On 2002.07.09 09:44 Philip Blundell wrote:
> 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.
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Received on Tue Jul 09 2002 - 14:55:10 EDT