Sharon,
Sorry I had read your original post too quickly. Your explanation about
programmers not wanting flickering tool tips is understandable. I see now
that different programs have different TT opening speeds e.g. right now in
OE6 it is fast.
thanks,
Beemer
| On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:10:38 -0000, Beemer wrote:
|
| > Sharon,
| >
| > Sorry I'm still not getting my point across. When I say "when I mouse
over
| > a program button" I'm not meaning the taskbar but, as I thought everyone
had
| > experienced, when in many programs most buttons on toolbars have
associated
| > tooltips. Hovering over the button will open the tooltip. In my case I
need
| > to hover for an annoyingly long time 0.5second? This is what I want to
| > speed up but can't find how to do it. I thought that it would be an XP
| > adjustable function?
|
| Your communicating is just fine. I'm probably at fault since my
| comprehension level is highly dependent on my caffeine intake.
|
| Half a second sounds about right for a tooltip to pop up. If it were more
| immediate, the quick tooltip flash would annoy folks that already know
what
| a particular button does. And when only show tips when there is a slight
| pause. Actually, if I'm understanding you correctly this time, we've
| already visited tooltips within a program. From my first response:
|
| "Click a blank spot in a toolbar where you want to
| tooltips to appear. This shifts the program's focus to that area. If no
| blank spot in the toolbar, click the program's title bar."
|
| I work with graphics programs quite a bit. These usually have a plethora
of
| buttons. I'm quite familiar with the ones that I use on a regular basis
but
| sometimes hover over the lesser used buttons to see what useful tool they
| lead to. When moving the cursor from the drawing area to the toolbar, the
| program can be "slow" to follow and there sometimes feels as if there is a
| delay in getting the tooltip to display. My workaround for this is in the
| above reply - helping the program to shift focus to the toolbar by
clicking
| in that area.
|
| Tooltips are generally handled by the individual program. It needs to, at
| very least, provide information about *what text* will be displayed for
| each button. Tooltip behavior can be dictated as well or it can default to
| whatever Windows uses.
|
| However... Google is not helping me find a "global" setting for adjusting
| the amount of time it takes for that tooltip to popup. I am finding that
it
| can be defined in a variety of ways -mostly from within the individual
| program's code and rarely a registry value for that same program. Oddly
| enough Media Player has a ton of registry entries for tooltips. Only other
| programs that made reference to them within the registry were Explorer
(has
| system settings for show/hide) and Microsoft's One Note... and saw nothing
| about time delays.
|
| The registry search did turn up something else though. There is a setting
| in System Properties> Performance> Visual Effects related to tooltip
| animation: fade and slide tooltip. It seems to me that it would take less
| time to simply display a tooltip than it would to animate the display of
| that same info. Might try disabling that setting to see if it makes any
| difference for you.
|
| --
| Sharon F
| MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
