racket/gui

Tooltips for menus and buttons

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#16 opened on Sep 17, 2015

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Description

It's a common thing to hover over a button in nemo or firefox and a little tooltip will appear describing what the button does. button% doesn't provide this interface and the help-string from menu-item% doesn't to, uh, do much of anything that I can see. If there's a way to do this already, I'd love to hear, otherwise...

Feature request! Tooltip functionality for menu-item% and button% and, like, other things that might plausibly be hovered over.

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Research direction
Examine the existing help string functionality in menu item% and implement tooltip support for menu item% and button%, similar to common GUI frameworks. Investigate how help string is currently stored and rendered, and add a new tooltip property that displays on hover.
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desktop
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2
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