racket / racket/gui

Tooltips for menus and buttons

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Description

It's a common thing to hover over a button in nemo or firefox and a little tooltip will appear describing what the button does. button% doesn't provide this interface and the help-string from menu-item% doesn't to, uh, do much of anything that I can see. If there's a way to do this already, I'd love to hear, otherwise...

Feature request! Tooltip functionality for menu-item% and button% and, like, other things that might plausibly be hovered over.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing menu-item% and button% APIs and how their help-string behavior currently works. Define tooltip behavior for those controls and other plausibly hoverable widgets; done means users can see descriptive tooltips when hovering over them.

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Assessment

Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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