Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
#27099 (converting built-in extensions to features) made this less important.
But it is still relevant to actual extensions. There is a dummy extension,
zzdummy, for testing.
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Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment:
Attached is a patch which attempts to display help text using a ToolTip. The
additional requirement is that for entry 'name', there be another entry have a
'name_help' in the config-extensions.def(easier to see the file to understand
what I mean).
A few
Saimadhav Heblikar added the comment:
Would like to check if a tooltip would be appropriate for this?
If yes, I would like to work on it.
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I was originally thinking of displaying 'option-help' beside a read-only text
widget containing the value, just under the enable key-value pairs. But I can
imagine that tooltips attached to the label (on the left) might be a better
alternative. This would
New submission from Terry J. Reedy:
#3068 adds a extension configuration dialog, with some validation of user
input. msg228890 suggest a new 'option-help' option to explain the meaning of
options, limit int entries when appropriate, and limit string choices (with a
drop-down list) when
