I rather lazily didn’t post an update, but on reflection I had already decided
to do exactly what you recommend, Richard.
Your advice isn’t wasted because my thinking about why it is the best thing to
do wasn’t that clear. It is an important UI point you make about advice only
being useful
Tooltips can be a solution, but the mechanism has some limitations in
this context.
First, tooltips are a sort of hidden feature, where the user discovers
them only after moving the mouse over the object. Prior to that moment
they're invisible, offering no guidance at all.
And in this
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=36647=211966#p211966
On 14.01.22 13:10, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks all.
I scripted as if the delay was the duration the tooltip is displayed. Duh! Of
course the delay is hover delay before the tooltip shows! I knew that, and
Thanks all.
I scripted as if the delay was the duration the tooltip is displayed. Duh! Of
course the delay is hover delay before the tooltip shows! I knew that, and yet
somehow didn’t know it at the same time.
Cheers
David G
> On 11 Jan 2022, at 2:48 pm, Craig Newman via use-livecode
>
You can do this. In a button script;
on mouseenter
set the tooltip of me to random(999)
end mouseenter
Now every time you move the cursor into that button, you get a new integer when
you hover.
Craig
> On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
Hi David,
> Am 11.01.2022 um 15:38 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode
> :
>
> Hi David,
>
>> Am 11.01.2022 um 15:29 schrieb David Glasgow via use-livecode
>> :
>>
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I have an app in which tooltips are generally off. I also have a button
>> menu which allows the
Hi David,
> Am 11.01.2022 um 15:29 schrieb David Glasgow via use-livecode
> :
>
> Hi folks
>
> I have an app in which tooltips are generally off. I also have a button menu
> which allows the selection of equality/inequelity. Users are non technical,
> and on selection (i.e. not the usual
