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Translucent WYSIWYG Tool Tips
See also the publication: WYSIWYG-Tool Tips: Enhancing Tool Tips with Translucent
Preview Bitmaps (Springer
Online) (pdf)
Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC05). Springer LNCS Volume 3804 / 2005, pp.647-652
The translucent WYSIWYG tool tips are an idea to enhance the functionality of tool tips.
Ordinary tool tips show a help text if the mouse cursor stays over a toolbar button. The WYSIWYG tool tips show a translucent preview of the dialog to appear, when clicking the button. A prototype was build for demonstration purpose.
On Windows platforms also the icons on the desktop display tool tips, which should be called icon tips. Within the concept of WYSIWYG tool tips a translucent preview of the application should appear on the screen, exactly how the application will look like when double-clicking the icon. Also for this case a prototype was build.
Files
- WYSIWYG-Tool Tips: Enhancing Tool Tips with Translucent
Preview Bitmaps (Springer
Online) (pdf)
Proceedings of International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC05). Springer LNCS Volume 3804 / 2005, pp.647-652 - Download the two prototypes as a zip archive (270 kByte).
- Video on the WYSIWYG Tool Tips