Re: tooltips

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:54:19 -0400
"Joseph J. McCarthy" <mccarthy_at_granular.che.pitt.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I doubt that tooltips in that fashion would be much help. Tooltips are very low-level helpers and if you already know about the tap-n-hold stuff you probably don't need the tooltip anyway.

> 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.

Yes, already noticed that too and was not amused ;)

> > Any ideas what we can do about this?

Don't use them in your programs, tell other authors not to use them, create patches to remove them.

> > p.
CU
  nils faerber

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