Subject: TopRuler, cursors, and tooltips
From: Matti Picus (matti@picus.org)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 18:27:12 CDT
While trying to analyze the tab/justification problem, I noticed that the
MouseOver message seems to be improperly handled when the mouse is over the
top ruler on the win32 platform.
It would seem that the code designer wished to change the cursor when the
mouse is over any ui clickable object on the ruler, including the tab
selection box, margin sliders, and indent indicator. This is
non-functioning in windows.
1. Wouldn't it be preferable to support tooltips in the ruler, like
winword does? If the answer is yes, we need to support a general tooltip
class in the af ...
2. Do the cursors actually change on any other platform? The code on unix
seems to try to change the cursors, does this work? If the answer is yes,
I will submit a patch to cause the topruler to change the cursor. This
requires some new cursor images, which I stole from the gdk toolkit
x-cursors.xbm file. They are quite ugly though.
Pesonally, I prefer to enable tooltips. This would give us more
compatibility to winword, and allow comment annotation and more flexible
user help.
Matti
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