Tooltips: Dan's Edit

(from GROUP_HELP_R1)

Conventions

I've copied the text from the design section of GROUP_HELP_R1; my suggested changes are in bold.

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	Save the changes made to the current book
Save As...	Save the current book with a new name	Save the current book with a new name
Save As Template	Save the current book as a book template	Save the current book as a book template
Export Book As	?	Export the book to other file formats
PDF...	?	Export the book as a PDF
HTML...	?	Export the book as a webpage
Print...	?	Print the book
Book Properties...	?	Edit the current book's title and dimensions
Quit	?	Exit Sophie
Edit	Edit Menu	Edit Menu (Alt-E)
Undo	?	Undo the last action
Redo	?	Redo the last undone action
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 its 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 audio and add it to the current page
Video...	?	Add a video file to the current page
Book...	?	Add a Sophie book to the current page
PDF...	?	Add a PDF to the current page
HTML...	?	Import HTML content into a frame on the current page
Plain text...	?	Import plain text into a frame on the current page
Browser	?	Insert a browser frame on the current page
Script	?	Create a new script in this book
Script file...	?	Attach a script created outside of Sophie to this book
View	View Menu	View Menu (Alt-V)
Normal mode	?	Use Sophie in a window
Full screen mode	?	Use Sophie in full-screen mode
Skins	Skins Menu	Skins Menu (Alt-S)
Window	Window Menu	Window Menu (Alt-W)
Cascade	?	Stack the book windows so that each title bar is visible
Tile	?	Arrange the book windows so they are shown side by side
Book Window Item	?	Book Title
Help	Help Menu	Help Menu (Alt-H)
Help Contents	?	Display the main help index
Send an Error Report	?	Report problems related to application use to the Sophie developers
About	?	Show version and license information

Opened books tabbar

Show Desktop	?	Switch to the book desktop
Book Tab Item	?	Full book name

Flaps

Left	?	Show or hide the left flap
Right	?	Show or hide the right flap
Bottom	?	View and edit the currently selected timeline

Tabs

Books	?	The books tab lists open books as well as embedded books in the current book
Book item in Opened books palette	?	Book name: double-click to switch to this book
Book item in Embedded books palette	?	Book name: double-click to open this embedded book in a new window
Pages	?	The pages tab shows thumbnails of your book
Page item	?	Click to go to this page; drag to reorder; drag a page template here to change the page template
Tools	?	The tools tab allows you to search the content of your book
Search Field	?	Enter text to search
Config	?	The config tab allows you to set up and configure the Sophie application
Plugin item	?	Name of the plugin
Enable button	?	Enable the selected plugin
Disable button	?	Disable the selected plugin: plugins dependent on this one will also be disabled
Servers	?	The servers tab allows you to connect to Sophie Servers
Server item	?	Server Name
Toggle selected button	?	Connect or disconnect from the currently selected server
Refresh button	?	Refresh the list of books on the current server
Resources	?	This tab shows resources in your book
Copy	?	Duplicate this resource
Delete	?	Remove this resource
Changes	?	This palette shows the history of actions that have been performed on the current book
Library	?	This tab shows book templates, page templates, and frame templates
Frame template item	?	Double click to apply to a selected frame or drag to a page to create a new frame
Page template item	?	Double click to apply to the current page or drag the page preview palette to create a new page
Book template item	?	Drag to a page to create an embedded book from the template, double click to create a new book from the template
Book Extras	?	This tab allows readers to add annotations to the book
Add Sticky	?	Add a sticky note to the current page
Styles	?
Timelines	?	Show timeline controls

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Book window

Zoom panel	?	Zoom in or out to see less or more of the book window (Ctrl-+/Ctrl--/Ctrl+*)
Page selector go to prev page	?	Go to the previous page (PgUp)
Page selector go to next page	?	Go to the next page (PgDown)
Page selector text field	?	The current page number; type in another number to go to that page
Search text field	?	Enter the text to search for
Search prev	?	Go to the previous search result
Search next	?	Go to the next search result
Outline frames	?	Show frame bounds (border, margins and padding)
Open preview	?	Open a preview of this book to see how it will appear to the reader

Book content

Resize cursor	?	Drag to resize the frame
Text/Audio/Video/Book/PDF/Browser Frame	?	Text/Audio/Video/Book/PDF/Browser frame, you may drag another resource here to replace this frame's content
Page	?	Drag resources to the page to create frames with this resources as content

Halos

FramePropertiesHalo	?	Frame Properties - Edit size, bounds, position and orientation
FrameAppearanceHalo	?	Frame Appearence - Edit frame border and background style
Increase z-order halo	?	Increase Z order - Get the frame nearer (in front of neighbour frames)
Decrease z-order halo	?	Decrease Z order - Get the frame further (behind neighbour frames)
LinkHalo	?	Link management - Add or remove links to other objects
DeleteHalo	?	Delete frame - Remove this frame from the page and the resources palette
GroupHalo	?	Group - Create a group of the selected objects to manipulate them as one
UngroupHalo	?	Ungroup - Break the existing group to release the dependency between grouped objects
AlignHalo	?	Align - Align selected objects on the page
EnterGroupHalo	?	Enter group - Start editing the objects inside the group as they were not grouped
ExitGroupHalo	?	Exit group - Stop editing the objects inside the group and return to parent object (group or page)
CharacterHalo	?	Character - Edit font style
PararaphHalos	?	Paragraph - Edit text aligment, spacing, etc.
Content control halo (for video, audion, pdf, etc)	?	Content - Edit preview options such as frame controllers
AnchorHalo	?	Anchor - Click to show text anchoring options, drag to anchor
RotateHalo	?	Rotate - Click to show orientation options, drag to rotate
ChainingHalo	?	Chaining - Click to show chaining options, drag to another frame to choose where to extend current text

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Comments

• Is it possible to use alternate tooltips for Cut/Copy/Paste if the Edit menu is invoked when text is selected? It should become Copy the selected text to the clipboard etc; I think it's confusing if it says "Move the selected element to another location by pasting" when you have text selected and you just want to cut it; the user might that that selecting Edit > Cut you're going to cut the frame and not the text, as you might hope. I would suggest that we probably don't need tooltips for Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete because they're used so often.
• Insert > Audio Record sounds very strange to me. I'd replace it with Insert > Record audio
• I don't know what to do for the left and right flap tooltips - I don't think we should refer to functionality in the flaps because there's a lot of that & the flaps basically only hold all of that. I think that if the mouse is moved over the left flap label when the flap open the tooltip should say "Hide the left flap"; if the mouse is moved over the left flap label when the flap is closed, the tooltip should say Show the left flap. That way we're telling the user what clicking that label will do.
• This list doesn't include the names of palettes, which should also have alternate text. Often the palette's name is more important than the tab's name.