Re: "standards" for tooltips?

From: Juan Antonio Domínguez Pérez <dominpe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:07:03 +0200

Roland wrote:

On 29-4-2005 4:06, sean wrote:

All,

I'm working on a large Swing app. which has inconsistent use of
tooltips.  In fact I have to address a bug report complaining about the
inconsistencies of the tooltips.  Some of our widgets display "helpful
text" as tooltips, others display the full details on the chosen value
(e.g. full pathname of a file chosen) etc.

Is there any documented standard for how best to use tooltips?

TIA,
Sean

Maybe the Java L&F design guidelines provide some rules of thumb:
<http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/ed2/book/>
<http://java.sun.com/products/jlf/at/book/>

Impressive books. This is the first notice I have about them. Thanks a lot Roland.

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References:
- "standards" for tooltips?
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- Re: "standards" for tooltips?
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