Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > I've applied this to cvs, having tried to incorporate some of John and > Allan's suggested improvements. Many thanks, Angus. As I said, any improvements are very welcome by me. More will follow eventually. Jürgen.

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-18 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 13 June 2002 8:02 pm, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > I felt like it was time to wake up again ;-) > As usual, feel free to modify the tips. I know that they can be enhanced by > someone with more LyX and English skills than me. > Anyway, the main goal is to add the mechanism to any dial

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-14 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Now I understand the desire from Allan to turn tooltips off. > > Not quite. I like the longer descriptions but once I know what thinsg > do I want to be able to turn them off. I've said it before: you're a develpoer and you can edi

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Allan Rae wrote: > > Now I understand the desire from Allan to turn tooltips off. > > Not quite. I like the longer descriptions but once I know what thinsg > do I want to be able to turn them off. You might consider this a > semi-automatic "What's this" facilty but I personally hate the > "What'

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread Allan Rae
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:28:23PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Bollocks. We have no mechanism yet in xforms for your fancy "what's this" > > stuff. We had the debate some time ago about which route to take and the > > consensual view was that these l

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:28:23PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Bollocks. We have no mechanism yet in xforms for your fancy "what's this" > stuff. We had the debate some time ago about which route to take and the > consensual view was that these long descriptions were the way to go. > > The v

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 13 June 2002 8:26 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:02:23PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > As usual, feel free to modify the tips. I know that they can be enhanced > > by someone with more LyX and English skills than me. > > These tooltips are far too long IMHO

Re: [PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:02:23PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > As usual, feel free to modify the tips. I know that they can be enhanced by > someone with more LyX and English skills than me. These tooltips are far too long IMHO. Tooltips should be short and snappy reminders : "Remove

[PATCH] FormRef: Tooltips

2002-06-13 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Linking was successful with --disable-debug. Thanks! I felt like it was time to wake up again ;-) As usual, feel free to modify the tips. I know that they can be enhanced by someone with more LyX and English skills than me. Anyway, the main goal is to add the mechanism to any dialog. This patc