Re: XForms: fl_set_object_helper() behaviour

T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:30:32 -0800 (PST)

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I thought about what the proper behavior should be,
and decided that there is no point showing what
the button does if you are not allowed to push it.
Of course I am open to suggestions.

--- "David J. Singer" <doc@jaunte.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from "David J. Singer"
> <doc@jaunte.freeserve.co.uk> :
>
>
> Hi all.
>
> It's nice to see that tooltips have become an integral part of XForms
> as
> of V0.89.
>
> I've created tooltips on various pixmap buttons in my XForms
> application
> using fl_set_object_helper() but have noticed that the tooltip only
> pops
> up while the button object is active. If I deactivate the button
> (as
> indeed I want to, depending on what the app is doing) the tooltip
> doesn't
> appear.
>
> Now I don't know what everone else thinks, but I reckon that tooltip
> text
> should appear whether a button is active or not. And this is
> certainly
> the behaviour that most Windows 9x programs I've looked at exhibit.
>
> Perhaps a feature request for a future version of XForms?
>
> --
> David J. Singer
> doc@jaunte.freeserve.co.uk
> "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana"
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