----- Original Message -----
> From: Ivica Ico Bukvic <[email protected]>
> To: 'Jonathan Wilkes' <[email protected]>; 'p1k53l workshop'
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 2:09 PM
> Subject: RE: [PD] ANN: pd-l2ork v.20120304 and new disis_wiimote external now
> available
>
>> Sounds great. I'll try it out in a bit.
>>
>> Just curious-- if I send [tip 1 Hello Canvas( to a canvas, where on the
>> canvas does the tooltip appear?
>>
>> -Jonathan
>
> Next to the cursor. We can alter that if this proves to be unintuitive.
Well, I personally prefer the "status bar" approach than tooltips that nestle
up next to
my mouse-- that's why I always printed out the tooltip at the bottom of the
patch (or
at the top if the user is mousing at the bottom). This is basically the
Firefox approach
seen when you mouse over a link on a web page and a little label appears at the
bottom
right of the patch (or bottom left, depending on where your mouse is).
However, I think I combined two related features that may not belong together:
1) tooltips
2) canvas tips
Even though it's not my preference, your tooltip placement seems to work well
and is
probably the clearest placement for the new user (who will probably benefit
most from
using them).
Btw-- one thing I notice is that a) I can generate a tip for the object itself
while the inlet
appears highlighted, and b) once I generate an inlet tip, if I move the mouse
horizontally
to the right the inlet will continue to be highlighted even though the mouse is
no longer over
it.
However, I think canvas tips should still be placed at the bottom of the
canvas, similar to
Firefox url links at the bottom of the page. Two important use cases off the
top of my head:
1) tutorial where the text gets displayed in reaction to user input. For
example, the
tip can tell the user how to spin a number box, and after the user spins it the
tip can change
to let the user know they did it correctly, and move on to the next part of the
tutorial. In
general this can make tutorial text a lot more interactive.
2) a revised pddplink could use it to display the actual link location when
link text
is displayed.
-Jonathan
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ico
>
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