Tooltip/PostScript woes
Bill J Gray Nov 25, 2002
Hi folks,
To move tooltips back to the title bar, hit Alt-J and enter this text:
TOOLTIPS=n
(Doing this just adds the above line to 'guide.dat.') I originally put
that in for debugging purposes, but it'll suppress tooltips until I
put in a more logical sort of control.
I've had quite a few comments on the tooltips, none of them very
positive. I will therefore put them back in the title bar by default, with
a check-box in the "Settings... Toolbar" dialog for anyone who actually
likes the new style, more "Windows-like" version. (I've never been a
big fan of floating tooltips, either; I also find them a little
"nervig". But
I thought that was just my own personal preference; it appears to be a
widely-shared preference.)
I will also fix the problem Bernd mentioned, about tooltips being
bright/ugly in night-vision mode.
Bernd, about the misbehavior with toolbar icons on a second line:
you're right, this was a problem in the 20 November version. I got
a comment from Bill Anderson about it (later also from you and
Andrea Pelloni), and fixed it for the 22 November version.
Rafael, about PostScript: this one will probably take some more
effort on my end before I really know what's going on. When I fire
up a Guide-created PS file with GhostScript, the "BoundingBox"
is ignored. (Which appears to be the proper behavior; PS regards
that as a comment line, and only EPS-aware apps are supposed
to pay attention to it.) If I go into "Settings... Margins", I can set
up margins that put the chart wherever I wish.
In my case, I do have to set margins unequally to get the chart
in the center of the page. As best I can tell, coordinates of "zero"
and "8.5 inches" do not actually land on the left and right margins
of my US-standard 8.5x11-inch paper.
-- Bill