Tooltip font size again ...
Tooltip font size again ...
- Subject: Tooltip font size again ...
- From: Jay Reynolds Freeman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:07:00 -0700
A few days ago I asked if anyone knew how to increase tooltip
font size, and evidently no one did. So let me state my problem
in somewhat broader terms and ask more broadly for advice:
Probably many of us think of large font sizes in the context
of fancy document formats -- we use them for headers, titles, and
the like. But there is a quite different reason that some people
have for using them: Some users would simply prefer to sit a
long way from their display, and need large fonts just to be
able to read the displayed text. (It's not strictly relevant, but
two reasons why you might prefer a large distance between eyes
and display are (1) because you have use for a lot of desk space in
front of the display, or (2) because you are farsighted and don't
like to keep fumbling for reading glasses every time you sit down
in front of your computer.)
Users with that kind of preference tend to set the default fonts
for things like web browsers, mail readers, and programming editors
to a large size -- perhaps 24 points for a one-meter reading distance,
as opposed to, say, 12 points at half a meter. For them, it would
be nice to have tooltips pop up in something larger than the 10-point
font that seems to be the default: At a meter, 10-point text is hard
for many people to read.
I am working on an application -- a programming-language
interpreter -- in which I do provide a range of font sizes for the
main text areas, just to suit such users. I wish there were a way
to increase tooltip size as well, and I would just as soon not have
to re-implement tooltips ab initio to do so. Can anyone suggest any
workarounds or alternative solutions?
I know that users can always change display resolution or use
the universal access "zoom" feature to increase the sizes of things,
but I would prefer to make my application friendly enough to
increase the relevant sizes from within it.
-- Jay Reynolds Freeman
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