Help Windows with a MAC

[litobrit]

I use a MAC
When staying on a parameter window of a process, a help window appears.
How to scroll down to read the full help ?
Some french users of MAC have the same bug.

[pfile]

you can hover over the text of the control, or the control itself. one of those hover actions produces a properly formatted tooltip, the other is cut off. i don't remember now which is which.

rob

[Niall Saunders]

Hi,

This is not just a 'MAC' issue - it happens on Windows systems as well.

Certainly, as Rob suggested, if you hover over the Title (as opposed to the control, slider, etc.), you seem to get a 'larger' window for the ToolTip - which allows for the 'correct' formatting.

[litobrit]

Sorry for my english...
I talk about the black tooltip window.
How to have the full window ?

[Niall Saunders]

Hi again,

Yes - it is the 'black tooltip window' that we are talking about. There are two ways to display most of these ToolTips. As I said, you can either hover over the 'label' of the user-field, or you can hover over the user-field itself.

Looking at the ImageIntegration process (as you have attached), you will get the first attached image when you hover over the label text that says "Combination". You will get the second attached image when you hover over the user-interaction field (that currently displays the word "Average").

The 'correctly formatted' ToolTip field is obtained when you hover over the label text.

Sometimes though, it is not always possible to display the whole field under any circumstances - in which case you have to resort to 'clever screencapture' processes. I use the Camtasia SnagIt package to do this - it is relatively inexpensive, and works very well indeed (it can even capture 'screen video', if required, as well as capture scrolling text windows 'automgically').

Hope this helps.

[Juan Conejero]

Hi,

This is a known Qt bug. I'll try to overcome it (by rewriting tooltip support by myself) in the next version. Definitely, this problem will be solved in a 1.8.5.x version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Juan,

Don't worry - it is a small bug, and it is manageable.

That said - is there any way that you could:

• Make the tootip text either 'sticky', or
• Make the tooltip 'stay on screen' timeout slightly longer (say,  50%)?
• Provide the user with a means of creating a text file containing all the tooltips for the selected process?
• Perhaps this provision could be triggered by the 'Process Documentation' icon, if no documentation is otherwise available?

Just some ideas . . .

[litobrit]

Thanks Niall and Juan.