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Analysis

Overview

Add tooltips for most of the existing controls and elements.

Task requirements

  • Create a convention for the tooltips (How should a tooltip look, punctioation marks, etc.)
  • Create a list of ALL needed tooltips for the application
    • Existing
    • Nonexisting
    • Layout elements
      • Flaps
        • Flap controls
      • Tabs
      • Palettes
      • Tabs in opened books tabbar
      • App window buttons
      • Book window controls
      • Menu items
      • Halos
      • Hud controls
    • Book elements
      • Frames
      • Frame borders
      • Page work area
  • Make the tooltips easily accesible and editable (in a file for example)
    • See if they are in skin

Task result

Convention, list of tooltips, code.

Implementation idea

http://wayfarerweb.com/wtooltip.php

ElementExisting tooltipNew tooltip
Open Menu ItemOpen existing book.Open existing book

GROUP_APP_HELP_R0

How to demo

Show the convention and the new tooltips.

Design

Convention

Every tooltip is a sentence that doesn't have a period at the end of a sentence. If there is a shortcut connected with this action, it should be written in parentheses.

File File Menu File Menu (Alt-F)
New Book Create a new book. Create a new book
Open Book... Open an existing book. Open an existing book
Close ? Close the current book
Save Save the current book to a file. Save the changes made to the current book
Save As... Save the current book to another file. Save the current book to a file
Save As Template Save the current book as a template. Save the current book as a template
Export Book As ? Save the book As a non-Sophie file format
PDF... ? Save the book As an Adobe Portable Document Format losing some of the content
HTML... ? Save the book As a Web Page losing some of the content
Print... ? Print a page or the whole book to paper
Book Properties... ? View or edit current book's title and dimensions
Quit ? Exit Sophie 2
Edit Edit Menu Edit Menu (Alt-E)
Insert Insert Menu Insert Menu (Alt-E)
View View Menu View Menu (Alt-V)
Skins Skins Menu Skins Menu (Alt-S)
Window Window Menu Window Menu (Alt-W)
Help Help Menu Help Menu (Alt-H)

Implementation

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Testing

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