Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
>
> Anyone have an example of how one could extend the balloon help concept?
> For instance, I would love to be able to point to a field in the attribute
> editor, press a key or something, and get a message that tells me about
> the attribute, the types of values that can go there, what they do,
> perhaps even show me a few examples in the case of the padding, relief,
Well, here are various possibilities that might inspire even better
ideas from others:
1) Stewart could code ballon help for each of the Attribute editor
fields. But, it sounds like you want more than what would be
reasonable in a ballon window, and you may want it to be "sticky"
so you can look at it while you test out its suggestions.
2) Similarly, each label in the Attribute editor could be an active
button. You click on it and a help window pops up. This window
could contain images, be scrollable, etc. This is what I've done
in my new version of TkGnats.
3) Less work might be for each label to be a button that calls
"tkman" for the man page that covers that widget. But, this doesn't
give examples or hints.
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...RickM...
