Fwd: Deficiencies in the KTextEditor::TextHintInterface?

[Jens Dagerbo]

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Without having worked with it, it's hard to know what "feels right", but 
intuitively I'd say the same behaviour as with a widget tooltip is best. That 
is, the timer doesn't start over unless the mouse leaves the hinted line. 

Maybe some way of specifying range within the line is preferable, but as long 
as the time restarts when the mouse leaves the line I can't see it really 
being a problem.

jd

> * when one text hint has been completed, should the timer really start
> again? if the user missed the spot, and they move the cursor again, they
> have to wait the elapsed time again.  QTooltips for widgets work on a
> delay-once, show as many until interrupted (mouse click, move/focus off
> widget, key press etc).
>
> * probably the biggest problem is that the interface doesn't enable the
>  client to specify what text range (ie. start and end TextCursors) the
>  tooltip applies to, thus how far the mouse has to go before the tooltip is
>  invalid. This is especially important if we decide the above behaviour
>  should not mean re-starting the timer.

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