[softwarelist] Re: Ovation Pro Windows - Tooltips

>were certainly interested, but thought the lack of tooltips for the
>button bar (even in its default length) was unhelpful.

I think tooltips might be necessary but not sufficient for them to buy 
it.

(by the way, thank you for showing the program)


>Yes, Shift-F1 provides Help, but if you can't remember which is the
>button you want, it takes a long time sorting through the buttons.

That is a good point. With a lot of buttons it is hard to keep doing 
Shift F1 help. Perhaps I could be daring and scrap all the little 
pictures and just have text buttons.

>Steve Fryatt) because BubbleHelp does not work on the Iyonix.

I'd forgotten that.

> (Yes, I
>know BubbleHelp cannot be updated.)

Nothing is impossible.

>It takes less effort to move the pointer to make the tooltip disappear
>temporarily (or even wait the 5 seconds for normal tooltips to
>self-cancel) than doing Shift-F1 and dropping the "question mark
>pointer" on the button to be interrogated.

But needing help is a rare case, tool tips getting in the way is common, 
so overall the time wasted is greater.

>I, for one, would be delighted to have tooltips for the Windows version
>button bar. By all means make it a payable upgrade. (Follow the Icon
>Technology model.)

It is dead easy to add tooltips.

>Would it be possible to have a standard "script" insert for the button
>macros so that individuals could insert their own tooltips (if necessary)?

The user interface does not support help strings for button macros. 
However the script language does. So it is reasonably easy to edit the 
help information for any button you like.

The debatable thing is if it is necessary to have a separate tooltip as 
well as the existing help information for buttons. If so I may have to 
extend the define macro function.

That's all very easy, but it does mean that anyone who has saved their 
macros would not see any new strings.



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