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what's the best way to put hint/help for the edit field on GUI?
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| Hi all,
I need your advice on layouting the GUI for my application.
I have quite a bunch of text edit input fields on my GUI window. To make
room for them, I have to put short variable names for them. But the users
really don't know what do these variable stand for... It's better that when
they hover their mouse around some input fields, I can display a tooltip for
them. I imagine this tooltip can be displayed either at the then position of
the mouse, or at the bottom of the window, or at a specified location ...
but I am not sure which approach is the most user-friendly... But I tried to
put a string in the "tooltipstring" property of the text edit input control,
it just did not work. No matter how I hover the mouse around the edit, it
just didn't show any tooltip... Any thoughts?
thanks a lot!
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"Mike" <housing2006@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:euk3a2$qdm$1@news.Stanford.EDU...
> Hi all,
>
> I need your advice on layouting the GUI for my application.
>
> I have quite a bunch of text edit input fields on my GUI window. To make
> room for them, I have to put short variable names for them. But the users
> really don't know what do these variable stand for... It's better that
> when they hover their mouse around some input fields, I can display a
> tooltip for them. I imagine this tooltip can be displayed either at the
> then position of the mouse, or at the bottom of the window, or at a
> specified location ... but I am not sure which approach is the most
> user-friendly... But I tried to put a string in the "tooltipstring"
> property of the text edit input control, it just did not work. No matter
> how I hover the mouse around the edit, it just didn't show any tooltip...
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks a lot!
>
Okay, I got the tooltip to display. Please advise me on which is the most
user-friendly way of displaying these help info?
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