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	?	Lists opened and embedded books
Book item in Opened books palette	?	Book name - double click to switch to this book
Book item in Embedded books palette	?	Book name - This book is embedded, double click to open it in another window
Pages	?	Shows thumbnails of pages of the current book and gives opportunity to navigate between pages
Page item	?	Click to switch to that page, drag to reorder; drag a page template to the palette to create a new page
Tools	?	Provides alternative navigation ways such as search
Search Field	?	Enter text to search for
Config	?	Application setup and configuration
Plugin item	?	Name of the plugin
Enable button	?	Enable the selected plugin to use functionalities that it provides
Disable button	?	Disable the selected plugin, plugins that depend on this one will also be disabled
Servers	?	List of available servers and connectivity options
Server item	?	Server Name
Toggle selected button	?	Connect or disconnect from the currently selected server
Refresh button	?	Get recent server list
Resources	?	Used and not used contents of the current book
Copy	?	Duplicate the selected resource
Delete	?	Remove the selected resource
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
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	?	Shows content that is not part of the book such as stickies, highlights and other external content related to the book
Add Sticky	?	Add a little yellow sticky note to the page (this note is not part of the book)
Styles	?
Timelines	?	Shows interactivity controls

Book window

Zoom panel	?	Zoom in or out to see less/more of the current page elements (Ctrl-+/Ctrl--/Ctrl+*)
Page selector go to prev page	?	Go to previous page of the book (PgUp)
Page selector go to next page	?	Go to next page of the book (PgDown)
Page selector text field	?	Current page, type in a number to go to that page
Search text field	?	Enter text to search
Search prev	?	Go to previous search result
Search next	?	Go to next search result
Outline frames	?	Show frame bounds (border, margins and padding)
Open preview	?	View the book in a separate window just like it will look to the readers

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

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.