Double tooltips

[Vladimir Prus]

On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:20:05 Milian Wolff wrote:

> On Wednesday, 8. September 2010 15:06:35 Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 16:43:52 Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, 8. September 2010 14:31:32 Niko Sams wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 21:43, Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:
> > > > > I see that while in Debug area, hovering over a variable gives me two
> > > > > tooltips -- one from contextbrowser and another from debugger, which
> > > > > is clearly not nice. The contextbrowser tooltip is created in
> > > > > kdevplatform/plugins/contextbrowser/contextbrowser.cpp, see
> > > > > viewCreated and textHintRequested.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does anybody have any opinion how this should be fixed? It seems
> > > > > ideal to - Make each View aware of the Area it belongs too
> > > > > - Make each Area specify a list of 'tooltip providers' it allows
> > > > > - When installing tooltip handler, check if the area of the view
> > > > > allows what we're trying to install.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you think about a priority system? So if debug+contextbrowser
> > > > are avaliable debug has a higher priority.
> > > > I think the implementation would be much easier....
> > > 
> > > Much better, +1 from me.
> > > 
> > > But I'd say the correct fix would be to show both tooltips as David said,
> > > since context browsing is defintely something I also want to do during
> > > debugging.
> > 
> > And you can do it just fine, without tooltips -- since Ctrl-Click works
> > just fine when debugging.
> 
> And if I want the information in the tooltip? Like the comment, the function 
> it overloads, ...

To be really pedantic -- even when debugging, you don't actually need to see the
value of a function. Therefore, when hovering over a function name, there's no
need to show debugger tooltip. And when hovering over a variable, you don't have
any overloaded function.

> 
> Those popups are useful!

They might be useful in code area. In debug area, they are behind debugger tooltips
half of the time.

Do you actually use KDevelop's debugger and find those tooltips OK?

- Volodya