I'm not compeletely sure what the UI standard on touch devices for tooltips is,
but I understand the standard for left click to be activated on release of a short tap. right click to activate after a sufficiently long tap and hold period. With those conventions in mind, if J receives touch events from QT, then double finger tap could invoke tooltips. An easy crossplatform approach is to have a "? button" that engages tooltip mode for the interface. When this mode is on, you can interpret left or right clicks to be tooltip requests instead. A third option is to turn left click actions into a 2 tap process. The first tap selects the item, and upon selection a portion of the screen area (bottom) would display the tooltip text. A second tap would invoke left click on the item. ----- Original Message ----- From: Björn Helgason <[email protected]> To: Programming forum <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 11:35 AM Subject: [Jprogramming] dissect hover I am going slowly through the labs. Even revisited the debug option. Debug can be of some use especially together with dissect. By the way the debug lab in JHS is a bit out of sync and not very helpful. Could not find much debug help. I noticed I can use the tooltips detail tutorial. Quite a lot of info you have managed to give and at the right time and place. Anyway tho hovercraft can be a bit slippery and quick. The tutorial tooltips is great but it sometimes extends beyond the screen. At one time I have been thinking that it might be interesting to have an option to get the results of the dissect and hovering into the terminal window. Some of it could then be used in JHS too. Maybe get some of it printed to the term window? Possibly with a right click option? Anyway I quite like this feature and maybe it is good for newcomers? It explains a lot of things that could be good for people to learn at start. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
