Version 15 (modified by deyan, 16 years ago) (diff) |
---|
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
- Flaps
- 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
Element | Existing tooltip | New tooltip |
Open Menu Item | Open existing book. | Open existing book |
Related
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
(Describe and link the implementation results here (from the wiki or the repository).)
Testing
(Place the testing results here.)
Comments
(Write comments for this or later revisions here.)
Attachments
- tooltips.txt (19.9 KB) - added by deyan 16 years ago.