Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: Jeff Harrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:20:35 -0500
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 09:08 AM, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Jeff Harrell wrote:
At least in Eclipse, this concern is addressed by only popping the
tooltip up if the developer pauses at the relevant point in the line
she is typing. IMO this works rather well.
I don't think I'd vote for that because a pause does not necessarily
signal a desire to invoke a help function. When I'm writing, I often
pause to read nearby code or comments, and having something "helpfully"
pop up and get in my way would be unacceptable.
I'm going to stick with my separate-frame idea. It works well for
things like compiler/linker output and stdout/stderr. I think it would
work well for real-time contextual API reference as well.
I'd better shut up about this soon, though, otherwise I'm going to get
myself roped into working on it. And *that's* no good.
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