Re: [Motiftools-users] Tooltips for Widgets?
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From: <Jef...@i-...> - 2000-11-08 14:59:21
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Hi Folks, According to the FAQ that Kenton Lee maintains: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 308) How can I implement "bubble help" or "tool tips" with Motif? [Last modified: Sep 98] Answer: Gary Aviv (ga...@co...) informed this maintainer about the free LiteClue widget from Computer Generation, Inc. (http://www.compgen.com/). LiteClue is a widget which pops a one line help message when the user passes the pointer over another "watched" widget. This is known by various names in the industry such as hints, clues, tips, bubble help and balloon help. Technical documentation and source for the LiteClue widget are available from: http://www.compgen.com/widgets/LiteClue.html ftp://ftp.compgen.com/pub/widgets/LiteClue.tar.Z Ken Lee (http://www.rahul.net/kenton/) writes: A simple technique is to popup a shell containing your message whenever an enter event occurs (possibly delayed by a timer) and pop it down again after a leave event. Morris Hirsch (hi...@cs...) has another approach and contributed a code example which is over 1000 lines, so I've put the code on our web site: http://www.cen.com/mw3/bubbleHelp.txt David Lewis (db...@ic...) writes: To those resources I should add that the XmHTML sources (HTML parser, browser, etc) have this ToolTip/bubble-help/popup feature, in readily-usable code. In addition, the ICS EnhancementPak widget set (http://www.ics.com) has both a toolbar with built-in popups for its entries and a small library which adds popup capabilities to any widget. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take care, Jeff |