What's this help

[Diego Moya]

On 26/09/05, Ellen Reitmayr <ellen.reitmayr at relevantive.de> wrote:
> -> Findability:
> Possible soutions:
>
> Additionally, when enabling What's this via the window title, there
> should be indicators in the UI for which elements What's this is
> available. This function then also needs a keyboard equivalent.
>

After the user pressed the window title "?" button, why do you require
the extra step of clicking on an element to show its "What's this"
information? Clicking the "?" should already show the "What's this"
information of all elements on the dialog for which it's available.
You should be take care of possible overlaps, but it's not a big deal
if the tooltips can be moved or closed on by one.


> -> Comparison:
>
> The user can open multiple What's this windows at once.
>
> (Should there be a function to close all what's this at once? Where??)

The window title "?" button is a perfect place. Click it once to
overlay all available help info on the window, click it again to
dismiss it all.

>
> -> Stickiness:
>
> Possible solutions:
>
> - When it first comes up, What's this is a tooltip as currently
> implemented. Only when the user clicks into the What's this, it becomes
> a knotes-like window.

How can you click on a tooltip? It disappears as soon as you move the
mouse away from the element, does it?.