what about multiple line tooltips?

Dimiter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Walker
> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 1:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Eap-features] Parameter tooltip
> 
> 
> The parameter tooltip that appears as a result of hitting 
> CTRL-P is useful 
> but appears to have at least 1 bug - the last part of the 
> string is often 
> missing - it appears to be a problem with the calculation of 
> the width of 
> the text because when I have only a single parameter it's pretty much 
> right, but as more parameters are added (especially if they have long 
> names) the amount of missing text at the end of the tooltip grows.
> 
> Regardless - it will certainly be possible to get functions 
> which have more 
> paramters than can fit in a single-line tooltip across the 
> width of the screen.
> 
> I'd like to see a change in the tooltip such that the current 
> parameter 
> (currently bolded?) is centered above the caret, rather than 
> centering the 
> entire tooltip above the caret.
> In this way the tooltip can have some arbitary max width 
> (less than the 
> width of the screen), and as a developer you don't have to 
> keep moving your 
> focus from back and forth between somewhere on the tooltip 
> and the caret.
> 
> James
> 
> --
> Stock Software Pty Ltd
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Eap-features mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-> features
> 


_______________________________________________
Eap-features mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features

Reply via email to