Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:37 AM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor < leo-editor@googlegroups.com> wrote: Ah, excellent, thanks, would have been a shame to implement it without > noticing that :-) And there's no delay in this event firing the way > there is with tool tips, so it works much better for b

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-12 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:21:17 -0700 (PDT) rengel wrote: > > Inkscape is Gtk based. The idea of tooltips for menu items in Leo > > came up some time ago, and I don't think it's directly supported in > > Qt. > > Qt directly supports statusTips. > http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qstatustipevent.html > >

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread rengel
> > Inkscape is Gtk based. The idea of tooltips for menu items in Leo came > up some time ago, and I don't think it's directly supported in Qt. > > > Qt directly supports statusTips. http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qstatustipevent.html Reinhard -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread Segundo Bob
Terry, I don't know anything about previous discussions. Apparently there are no tooltips for the current Leo-Editor menus. I use tooltips on the menus that I create and I think they work very well. -- Segundo Bob segundo...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:33:14 -0700 Segundo Bob wrote: > On 07/10/2016 06:23 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: > > The idea of tooltips for menu items in Leo came > > up some time ago, and I don't think it's directly supported in Qt. > > Terry, > > Qt does support tooltips for menu items.

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:33:14 -0700 Segundo Bob wrote: > On 07/10/2016 06:23 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: > > The idea of tooltips for menu items in Leo came > > up some time ago, and I don't think it's directly supported in Qt. > > Terry, > > Qt does support tooltips for menu items.

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread Segundo Bob
On 07/10/2016 06:23 PM, 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor wrote: > The idea of tooltips for menu items in Leo came > up some time ago, and I don't think it's directly supported in Qt. Terry, Qt does support tooltips for menu items. I use this feature often. The tooltip is displayed when you mouse ov

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-11 Thread Largo84
I agree this would be great! I have no idea what most of the menu items do. It makes me wonder that I'm using only a small fraction of the capabilities of this terrific tool. Rob On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 2:21:49 PM UTC-4, tfer wrote: > > As I fumbled around in Leo Menus trying to

Re: Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-10 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:21:48 -0700 (PDT) "'tfer' via leo-editor" wrote: > As I fumbled around in Leo Menus trying to do half remembered things, > (its been a while since I've used it), I thought that we should > borrow from the prompts Inkscape provides to make this easier. > > In Inkscape, down

Help -- Idea for a UI addition

2016-07-10 Thread 'tfer' via leo-editor
As I fumbled around in Leo Menus trying to do half remembered things, (its been a while since I've used it), I thought that we should borrow from the prompts Inkscape provides to make this easier. In Inkscape, down in the status bar context sensitive hints are displayed. For instance, as you g