Status-line & tooltips

[musikBear]

Current the behavior on mouseOver of a note-container in song-editor, is to show a tool-tip repeat: "doubleclick to open this pattern...". This is ofcause usefull for the inexperienced user, but after a while most will properly disabel tooltips. Question is now: Could the tool-tip be used for more general usefull features, or should LMMS have a status-bar? What i miss is some way to see the whole user-name of a block. If the container is short, the user will only see a couple of letters. The container-name is obscured. The user need to open pianoroll, and then the name is nicely written in the win-bar. Could the win-bar be used as a status-line (done that often in my proggies) or could tool-tips have a dual usage (second-layer so to speak.. hmm?? -
in pseudo - if (tooltip-off then ... tooltip==focusContain.name ..??) Otherwise -A status-line with user-information like user-named-blocks, would be a neat feature.

[diizy]

What's a win-bar?

[musikBear]

Q

What's a win-bar?

q
:p you know the blue 'egde' in top of a windows window -now it says lmms 1.0'.
In some languaes its called 'caption-bar' .. surely linux has something 'like' it -but a different aproach could be a status-bar like the one in GIMP, (info-text in lowest left part of the screen)
A behavior with mouseOver+ctrl, would also work well - in fact better, because then the item in focus should only be stringed-out on a user-active- event. ==Better design

[diizy]

On 04/04/2014 07:36 PM, musikBear wrote:

Q
What's a win-bar?
q
:p you know the blue 'egde' in top of a windows window -now it says
lmms 1.0'.
In some languaes its called 'caption-bar' .. surely linux has
something 'like' it -but a different aproach could be a status-bar
like the one in GIMP, (info-text in lowest left part of the screen)
A behavior with mouseOver+ctrl, would also work well - in fact better,
because then the item in focus should only be stringed-out on a
user-active- event. ==Better design

An extra static bar in the UI seems kind of problematic - we already
need all the screenspace we can get, adding in stuff would seem
counterproductive.

[diizy]

We could however use the menubar that now has the "file, edit, tools"
etc. as there's plenty of space on the right that could be utilized.
Only question is whether doing this is possible in Qt (I'm not sure,
will look into it).

[musikBear]

sounds good! 👍

[musikBear]

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[zonkmachine]

error

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[musikBear]

@zonkmachine i made a posting error 🙈 The topic is still valid, and also not closed, so all is well 👼
Except diiz ofcause not 'looking'. Imo a simple tooltip change from name of instrument, as it is now, to showing the block-name, would be satisfactory, eg the same method that is used in mixer to show channel-names horizontally, could be reused to show block-name. After all, the name of the instrument can be seen a few inches to the left already, so a tooltip with instrument-name is redundant.
Perhaps in 1.2.1 :)

[firewall1110]

Isn't this done?

[musikBear]

Yes! This works fine in 1.3: