Proposal for a new class: KToolTip

[Robert Knight]

Hello,

I second the idea.  If you have the chance, I would recommend looking
at the tooltips used in Microsoft Office 2007.  The use of animations
and images in them makes it much easier to understand the function of
the various toolbar buttons and other actions.

Regards,
Robert.


On 16/08/06, Jarosław Staniek <js at iidea.pl> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> A proposal:
> Customizing contents of QToolTip was not possible in Qt3, what lead to
> multiple implementations based on QFrame with WStyle_Tool style, e.g.:
>
> kdebase/libkonq/konq_filetip.cc
>
> In fact I implemnted another one (for displaying a zoom for QVariant database
> data in Kexi) and who knows how many other implementations
> exist.
>
> Even by displaying Qt HTML content via QToolTip::showText() in Qt4 can be not
> enough and it will be impossible to style. Instead, a common class could be
> developed for kdeui with a few utility methods.
> One of them can be to displaying an icon + description like in konq_filetip.cc
> (using a Qt HTML), other could be to display a preview of a larger multiline
> text. Finally a paint event can be used to reimplement the display for other
> cases.
>
> Sometimes, an option displaying some sort of arrow is usable, like here:
> http://kexi-project.org/pics/1.1/date_validator.png
>
> A be benefit from reusing this code could be that for typical cases the
> tooltip looks always the same. Optional thing would be styling using (yes, all
> the fancy effects that Kicker has in kde3 and so people/artists proposed e.g.
> on KDE-look.org).
>
> I can add the stuff to the kdeui TODO list, and later can add an initial stuff
> based on my code, konq_filetip.cc code and what whatever people people point
> too in the meantime.
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
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>