RE: [cdt-dev] managedbuilder - alternative tool option tip display

["Tokugawa, Miwako" <miwako.tokugawa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.
I tried out the context help mechanism (org.eclipse.help.contexts extension) 
and found it to be somewhat restrictive and non-intuitive. The main reason for this is that you can't seem to get the context help on labels (=option names) but only selection fields (=option values). The hovering tooltip, and the alternative fixed-location tooltip mechanism I proposed, have no such restriction.

Could someone please be able to review/check in my patches in  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=290997?
Thank you very much in advance.

Miwako

-----Original Message-----
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wieant Nielander
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:17 AM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] managedbuilder - alternative tool option tip display

> I would like to contribute managedbuilder/ui code that would enable
> alternative tool option tip display format on the "Settings" page
> and would like to get feedback on the design. The new format will
> look like the following, i.e. instead of the hovering tip, it
> displays the tip text at a fixed location at the bottom.
> 
> Please see the document below for details.

Miwako,

Looks nice, please note that another solution may be to use the
standard help view. That is, not a separate view like your alternative
#3, but a sticky one attached to the properties dialog itselve. It
will appear when pressing the question mark in the lower left bottom
of the properties dialog, and should be context sensitive.

-- Wieant
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