--- On Sun, 7/17/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Martin Peach" <[email protected]>, "pd-list" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, July 17, 2011, 8:22 PM > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes > wrote: > > --- On Sat, 7/16/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 3. Tell the value last put in an inlet, if > it's > >> currently stored (and > >> if the concept makes sense for > >> that particular inlet). > > > > If this is desired, then it's probably better to do > everything except draw the tooltip window on the c side. > > Why ? > > > That's plenty. The only thing that sucks harder > than being annoyed by tooltips is being annoyed by gigantic > tooltips <-[gigantic tooltips have lots and lots and lots > of text inside them. They were designed by geniuses who > think that informative paragraphs of text are important > enough to interrupt the main interface view, yet ephemeral > enough that a single accidental mouse movement of 2 pixels > can cause the whole tooltip to]. > > Well, «tooltips» don't have to be implemented as bad as > you describe, and for example, they don't have to be > necessarily tooltips, and they don't have to display > information that the user doesn't want to see. > > Thus there can be features to display that info differently > than as tooltips : statusbar, sidebar, or tooltip-like > boxes that don't necessarily activate on <Enter> or > don't necessarily deactivate on <Leave>. Implement > whatever is comfortable and useful. > > What would be a good way to toggle «enable inlet name > tooltips», «enable method-list tooltips», etc., as > separate settings ? Probably just a drop-down list in a menu. > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
