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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
- 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.
Tooltips
Menu bars and menus
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) |
Undo | ? | Discard the last change |
Redo | ? | Repeat the last discarded change |
Cut | ? | Move the selected element to another location by pasting |
Copy | ? | Copy the selected element to another location by pasting |
Paste | ? | Put the last copied/cut element to selected location |
Delete | ? | Remove the selected element from it's current location |
Insert | Insert Menu | Insert Menu (Alt-E) |
Text | ? | Add an empty text frame to the current page |
Image... | ? | Add an image file to the current page |
Audio... | ? | Add an audio file to the current page |
Audio Record... | ? | Record an audio file and add it to the current page |
Video... | ? | Add a video file to the current page |
Book... | ? | Add a whole book to the current page |
PDF... | ? | Add a PDF document to the current page |
HTML... | ? | Add a Web page to the current page |
Plain text... | ? | Add a text file to the current page |
Browser | ? | Add an interactive web page browser to the current page |
Script | ? | Create an empty script file that can control Sophie |
Script file... | ? | Insert a script that can control Sophie |
View | View Menu | View Menu (Alt-V) |
Normal mode | ? | Switch the view back to a normal window |
Full screen mode | ? | View the application on the whole screen for more convinient work |
Skins | Skins Menu | Skins Menu (Alt-S) |
Window | Window Menu | Window Menu (Alt-W) |
Cascade | ? | Stack book windows so that each window title bar is visible |
Tile | ? | Arrange book windows so they are shown side by side |
Book Window Item | ? | Book Title |
Help | Help Menu | Help Menu (Alt-H) |
Help Contents | ? | Display main help index |
Send an Error Report | ? | Report problems related to application use |
About | ? | Show version and licence information |
Flaps
Left | ? | Browse, download, preview books |
Right | ? | Edit books, templates |
Bottom | ? | View and edit timelines |
Tabs
Books | ? | Lists opened and embedded books |
Pages | ? | Shows thumbnails of pages of the current book and gives opportunity to navigate between pages |
Tools | ? | Provides alternative navigation ways such as search |
Config | ? | Application setup and configuration |
Servers | ? | List of available servers and connectivity options |
Resources | ? | Used and not used contents of the current book |
Changes | ? | History of the actions performed to the current book |
Library | ? | Lists existing templates for creating frames, pages and books with properties given in advance |
Book Extras | ? | Shows content that is not part of the book such as annotations, highlights and other external content related to the book |
Styles | ? | |
Timelines | ? | Shows interactivity controls |
Book content
Implementation
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Testing
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Comments
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Attachments
- tooltips.txt (19.9 KB) - added by deyan 16 years ago.