[PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; pd-list List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
> 
> Le 2012-03-06 à 14:11:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> 
>>  I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of 
> the current mouse location.
> 
> A function for setting the current tooltip of a certain window could look into 
> user settings to figure out automatically whether a certain piece of text is to 
> appear in a balloon vs in a label widget in a statusbar frame at the bottom of 
> the window.

There are actually three possibilities-- balloon, statusbar, and window item at 
the bottom of the patch (which is the current pd-extended implementation).

As I said in the pd-l2ork thread related to this, I've combined two features-- 
canvas tips and objects tips-- into one concept, but maybe they should 
be broken out so that GUI-Class/GUI-plugin developers can choose one or 
the other.  (And still, the user could choose status bar vs. balloons.)

-Jonathan

> Users would have the choice, while GUI-Class developers and 
> GUI-Plugins developers wouldn't have to even think about it.
> 
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