Where has HISE's tooltips panel gone?

[d.healey]

There used to be a tooltip panel at the top of the HISE UI. When did it get removed? Can we get it back? It is super useful for discovering features of the UI and what different controls in modules do.

[ulrik]

@d-healey yes you're right, it's very useful

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey it might be a display bug: I noticed yesterday that if you use a floating tile to display the tooltips, there are still not showing...

[d.healey]

@Matt_SF Tooltip panel works here

[Matt_SF]

@d-healey ah. It was not working on windows. Using a floating tile, neither HISE tooltips, nor UI widgets tooltips were being displayed...

Edit: but it was on someone else's project. I never display the tooltips using a floating tile so I'll have to check again

[d.healey]

Here's the culprit - https://github.com/christophhart/HISE/commit/d439b40f7e7f04592868b533b7ae26ad2bde3c25

@Christoph-Hart Is the idea that we're meant to add a floating popup window to show tooltips?

If so I think this is a terrible idea. Tooltips probably benefit new users the most and the custom popout system is not very discoverable so new users will have no idea what anything on the UI does.

In general I'm not a fan of having lots of little floating windows and there's all this spare room in the header that is perfect for the tooltips to be displayed. I think even on a small monitor there should be enough room there.

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey no the idea is to switch to a „normal“ tooltip style which shows a little popup next to the mouse if you hover over stuff and remove the static panel on the HISE windows while keeping the TooltipPanel functionality for user interfaces.

I noticed some glitches with second windows though and I‘ll take a look when I‘m back.

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart said in Where has HISE's tooltips panel gone?:

tooltip style which shows a little popup next to the mouse

Aha, this idea I like more :) And I actually somehow didn't notice it's there.

Could you make it work when hovering over controls in scripts - not the UI script necessarily (that would probably be annoying) but other scripts? I like to make lots of little scripts to do various tasks and I use the tooltips to document what each control does so that I don't have to keep poking around in the code.

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey it should work already globally but I might have to reduce the delay before it appears. I cannot distinguish between UI and other stuff though without nasty hacks in the JUCE code so if you have a TooltipPanel it will appear twice.

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart Not showing here