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Change the popup help screen to label.
Howdy,
Just a thought about the way the popup help works. At the moment when you hover the mouse over a button you get the associated help displayed in a light yellow rectangle.
Now this is ok at first, but sometimes it gets in the way of button functionality, and on a few occassions I've had to move the mouse off the button to remove this help info and then reposition the mouse in order to select that button. Also now and then the help display is under the skin and not on-top.
A thought for a new way of doing this would be to add the INFO/HELP (or HINT as you call it in the Skin Designer) to a Label.
This way when we design skins, DAP could look to see if we have assigned a label to HINT, and if so then instead of using this popup over the mouse (after whatever the delay period is), the HINT could appear instantly in the hint label (just like track name, artist etc).
If you don't understand what I mean, open up Internet Explorer, and move your mouse over a URL (or link) and you will see that on the bottom line of IE (the status line) the actual link address is displayed on that line.
This means the skin designers can add/implement something else on their skins.
Now to keep backward compatibility, or with those skins which don't support the HINT LABEL (such as pre-existing skins), DAP would have to check to see if the hint label is assigned, and if not, then use the pre-existing popup.
Just a thought.
Just a thought about the way the popup help works. At the moment when you hover the mouse over a button you get the associated help displayed in a light yellow rectangle.
Now this is ok at first, but sometimes it gets in the way of button functionality, and on a few occassions I've had to move the mouse off the button to remove this help info and then reposition the mouse in order to select that button. Also now and then the help display is under the skin and not on-top.
A thought for a new way of doing this would be to add the INFO/HELP (or HINT as you call it in the Skin Designer) to a Label.
This way when we design skins, DAP could look to see if we have assigned a label to HINT, and if so then instead of using this popup over the mouse (after whatever the delay period is), the HINT could appear instantly in the hint label (just like track name, artist etc).
If you don't understand what I mean, open up Internet Explorer, and move your mouse over a URL (or link) and you will see that on the bottom line of IE (the status line) the actual link address is displayed on that line.
This means the skin designers can add/implement something else on their skins.
Now to keep backward compatibility, or with those skins which don't support the HINT LABEL (such as pre-existing skins), DAP would have to check to see if the hint label is assigned, and if not, then use the pre-existing popup.
Just a thought.