Re: Categories, Protocols, Delegates and ToolTips
Re: Categories, Protocols, Delegates and ToolTips
- Subject: Re: Categories, Protocols, Delegates and ToolTips
- From: Georg Tuparev <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:19:24 +0200
Paul,
You are opening an old wound of mine. Apple's help system is real junk,
and I my customers too ask me for replacement.
I do not know if this still works (last time I was playing with it was
DP4), but NSResponder used to have a method called showContextHelp: (I
believe) that subclasses can override (could be done in a category too).
This method is called when you press the"help" key (the cursor is
changed to a "?" sign and you can point it to a widget). How you can
achieve the same effect on keyboards without "help" key is still a
mystery for me though.
To implement this functionality in a simple way like in a category, you
can create a string file where the keys are some kind widget ids, and
the value is a help text, and display the text in a borderless window
near the widget.
Please let us know if this still works - as I mentioned, it was long
time ago when I was doing this.
cheers
gt
On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 03:06 , Paul Cezanne wrote:
That is where is all started. I need a form of roll over help.
Tooltips aren't good enough (user testing has spoken, the objection was
primarily how they faded away after a set time). I want to place the
mouse over a control and have help text appear in a help text area.
Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
Klipper 13
1186 VR Amstelveen
The Netherlands
Mobile: +31-6-55798196
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