Re: [guide-user] Tooltip/PostScript woes

Bernd Brinkmann Nov 26, 2002

Hello Bill,

> To move tooltips back to the title bar, hit Alt-J and enter this
> text:
>
> TOOLTIPS=n

you're great. I know no other piece of software where the
communication and reaction time between users and developer is so
fast and fruitful. Keep on going.

> 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.)

One other reason for putting back the tooltips to the title bar: on a slow
computer (100 MHz Pentium, yes I use such a machine in the
observatory to control the telescope via Guide) the redraw time is long
and you have to wait with the next command.

Clear skies
Bernd, who will go to RSA for watching the total solar eclipse soon


Bernd Brinkmann
Herne, Germany

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Bernd.A.Brinkmann/index.html