Tooltips truncated

[andrewluck]

Hi All

I'm having some problems with tooltips being truncated (example attached). This is with v1.8RC7.

This does make it rather harder to learn what the tools do.

Andrew

[Sean]

Hi Andrew,

Have you tried mousing over the text label of the control rather than the control itself? At least in some cases, this will give you the full tooltip text.

I believe that this is due to some quirks in the Qt library that's used for the UI.

Sean

[andrewluck]

Hi Sean

Usually the labels are the same. There's little, if no improvement mousing over the text labels.

Is this graphics card dependent?

Andrew

[cfranks]

Andrew,

When the tooltip is truncated, move the mouse down to the next tooltip and then back up again.  This will (should) give the full text.  Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries but will eventually work.  Not sure why this happens but it has been doing it for a long time on my Windows 7 system.

Charles

[andrewluck]

Moving up and down between the labels helps. Thanks.

Only seems to happen on my desktop machine. I haven't seen the same problem on my laptop.

Andrew

[Juan Conejero]

This is a long-standing bug in Qt since at least 2008. Unfortunately, nobody seems to be interested in fixing it.

Eventually, I'll have to hack Qt to fix it, but the idea doesn't make me very happy so to say. Things are already difficult enough without having to do the work of others.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll try to get this fixed for the final 1.8.0 release.

[cfranks]

Juan,

Having noticed your workload for PI from this forum, may I suggest you really don't need to 'do the work of others'.  The tooltips are completely viewable by moving the mouse as I mentioned.  Wait 'til you have nothing to do!   

Charles

[andrewluck]

Agreed. It's a pretty minor inconvenience with an acceptable work around.

Andrew

[pfile]

can you suppress the tooltips which are rendered truncated? or is it all or nothing with Qt?