Hi Martin,
I know how to do it by my self but maybe MSEGUI has something build-in
and there is no sense to reinvent the wheel. Even if not, I'll need
your help anyway I guess. I need some kind of mix between hint and
tooltip which I bet you seen many times in web and desktop apps:
1. The first one is very simple. I have window with listview. It has
action in popmenu which copy selected rows into another table in
sqlite. I have assigned "Q" shortcut to it but I want show to user
that this event happened successfully in not annoying and not focus
stealing way. You probably seen it many times in web apps - smooth
small hint with simple message "You copied N rows into clipboard"
which automatically disappear after N seconds or when you click on it.
The call interface should be also simple because I'll use it a lot.
Some kind of:
ShowTooltip("You copied N rows into clipboard", <position>, <hide
delay>, <do fade out>);
The <do fade out> option is questionable, I guess that we may be
limited here with X window / GDI but it would be cool to have this
visual effect
2. This one is extended version of point 1. I want to prepare some
kind of tips for newbie users. For example, user first time open some
window and he get tooltip under button which says "Click here to do
something" with optional check box "Do not show me this message again"
which result I save in my config file
While I'm writting this post, it reminds me Lazarus LCL customizable
component called TPopupNotifier. It has basic template, icon on the
left, title on top, descritpion in the middle and expiration time.
Regards
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