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icon3.gif   Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES, posted by Steve Jones on Wed Jul 14 21:47:47 2004 
    icon2.gif   Re: Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Jul 14 22:21:55 2004 
       icon2.gif   Re: Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES, posted by Steve Jones on Wed Jul 14 22:54:43 2004 
          icon2.gif   Re: Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jul 15 10:01:03 2004 
             icon14.gif   Re: Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES, posted by Steve Jones on Mon Aug 2 19:27:56 2004 
Message ID: 604     Entry time: Wed Jul 14 22:54:43 2004     In reply to: 602     Reply to this: 607
Icon: Reply  Author: Steve Jones  Author Email: steve.jones@freescale.com 
Category: Request  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.5.3 
Subject: Re: Wishlist: TOOLTIP for ATTRIBUTES 
> > Using the COMMENT feature to add guidance to an ATTRIBUTE works great, but
> > is it possible to add a TOOLTIP <ATTRIBUTE> = so as to save screen space? 
> 
> Where should the tooltip appear? In the entry form or when an entry is
> displayed, or even in the tabular listing? I can put a title arround the
> attribut names such as
> 
> <div title="Please enter some subject here">Subject:</div>
> 
> which gets interpreted by most browsers as a tooltip. However it's not
> apparent to the user that leaving the cursor on top of "Subject" opens a
> tooltip, especially since the cursor is displayed as the text cursor (vertical
> bar), not as an arrow over the attribute. Do you have a link to a public web
> page which uses tooltips?
> 
> > For a complex entry form it is desireable to try and have everything in a
> > single window and this, I think, would help.
> 
> Aiming for running elog on you PDA? Let me know if you succeed...

In the Entry form I am thinking, as this is when most people need some help. 
Perhaps the user could be clued in with a "Mouse-over each attribute for Help"
COMMENT at the top.

As for the PDA, no, it's just that some people around here get confused if they
have to scroll down.  Not a big thing . . . ;-> Hmmm, PDA . . . 
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