[Jsynthlib-devel] Tip-of-the-day system

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

I'm sure everybody here has seen those "Tip of the day" pop-ups that 
many apps have, where the user is shown some random bit of information 
about what they can do with the app. And then there are buttons for "See 
Next" and "Stop Showing These on Startup" actions.

I think that JSL could benefit from something like this. I'm willing to 
write it, but I won't be able to get to it immediately. If someone else 
wants to do it, that's fine.

But I wanted to discuss how we should manage the tips. It would be nice 
to be able to color/bolden/italicize/underline different sections of 
text for emphasis. My guess is that Java includes some kind of HTML 
viewer panel, but I'm not sure. If it does, then we could just store all 
of the tips as HTML. If we did that, would we want to store all of the 
tips as strings within the class file that handles displaying them? Or 
do we want to keep them in a separate file? Do we want to support 
images? External links to the wiki or web documentation?

- Joe