#1246 Show glossary entries in tooltips on TransTips marks

[kirk mitchell]

I am requesting hovering on source word to pop-up glossary item.
Reasons: (1) saves 20-30 right-clicks per hour, or 1000's less right-clicks every week, or hundreds of 1000s per year; this is a huge help to prevent or aleviate RSI, (2) the other alternative of opening the glossary pane takes up screen space and requires manual searching.

Hovering behavior is already implemented for language tools (showing grammar tips etc.). I am not a programmer, but perhaps it is not difficult to change behavior from [right-click] to [hover]?

Picture attached show example (but with tool tips).

[Aaron Madlon-Kay]

I am not a programmer, but perhaps it is not difficult to change behavior from [right-click] to [hover]?

"I am not a programmer, but..." is about as useful as US politicians saying "I am not a scientist, but..."

If you are asking for the context menu to appear on hover, that doesn't seem reasonable to me. However since you gave us a screenshot of a tooltip, perhaps you are asking for a tooltip instead. That would be reasonable. It is now available in trunk; please try a nightly build and see if it meets your needs:
https://omegat.ci.cloudbees.com/job/omegat-trunk/

If so, I will close the RFE.

[kirk mitchell]

That's funny, I agree with your analogy. Thanks for the link, I will check the trunk version.
I am not not requesting a tooltip - the screenshot was only to show an example of the behavior.
Let me try to clarify...
Current behavior: RIGHT-CLICK ON UNDERLINED WORD IN SOUCE SHOWS GLOSSARY ITEM
Requested behavior: HOVER ON UNDERLINED WORD IN SOUCE SHOWS GLOSSARY ITEM

With a delay time of 0s, you could scroll across an entire source sentence and check glossary words on the fly. This would save time, save clicks, and save opening extra panes. In my opinion, this would really improve useability of Omegat.
If you are familiar with it, a similar behavior is seen in Rikaikun and such.

THANK YOU for considering the request!!

[Aaron Madlon-Kay]

It's not clear to me what the difference is between what you are asking and a tooltip, except the delay before tooltips are shown.

You can set the tooltip delay to zero with a script if you like. Save the following as e.g. instant_tooltips.groovy in <scripts folder>/application_startup:

javax.swing.ToolTipManager.sharedInstance().setInitialDelay(0)

[kirk mitchell]

Thank you for your patience. I thought tooltip meant the grammar tips, but now I see that it is the hoverbox in a generic sense. Please pardon the lack of knowledge there.
So you are correct, it is a tooltip (!)

I have downloaded the trunk version and will try it tomorrow. If you could leave this open for 24hrs I will be check the functionality and post back.
Thank you for the script, and also thank you (and others involved) for the effort you put into OmegaT. I absolutely love this software and wouldn't use anything else.

[kirk mitchell]

Aaron, I installed the trunk you indicated and tried it.
It indeed has the exact feature I was requesting. It's perfect.
Thank you for responding, and please close the RFE.

[Aaron Madlon-Kay]

Thanks for confirmation. Implemented in trunk.

[Didier Briel]

Implemented in the released version 4.0 of OmegaT.

Didier