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Hovering over a control elicits display of the tooltip text. However, the text disappears after a few seconds. Has the length of time the display is visible been defined? Can it be specified by the developer?-- 151.200.244.58 09:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
In Windows it is defined in system registry, and is not definable from one program to another. However certain programs (such as Tweak UI) can manipulate it as global system behaviour. yet another Matt 16:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
What do you see as a difference between Tooltip and Ballon Help ? AlainD ( talk) 22:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
"With the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, alt no longer displays a tooltip, and title is now used instead."
IE 8 still supports ATL as tooltip when TITLE is not present. Only when both are present, TITLE is used as tooltip instead of ALT. laoloup ( talk) 01:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but I think it sucks...there have to be *some* sources, right? It looks like some kind of uncommon technology that just came out and not many people know about it. This technology has been in existence for years and this is all we have? Why do we use the word tooltip in the summary? Isn't that a bit like defining a word by using itself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.21.63.188 ( talk) 22:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Nice sweeping decision. If you're going to judge the entire article, base your decision on the article, not one detail that is generally ignored by the end user anyway. Also, a summary is not a definition, they aren't even synonyms. Furthermore, merely using the word does not make a circular definition, in fact try making one without the word; it's impossible.
PS: If you're going to complain, remember, you can edit the article too.
Marky1991 ( talk) 21:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
OK, here's an example of why this article needs work: "The tooltip is used for providing an interface between pointer and push button generally." I'm not even close to sure what this means. It might be correct, but it's really unclear, so it's been removed. —Preceding
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Generally, a tooltip has five aspects:
Integrated support for all five aspects is provided in the page notes approach to tooltips. Page Notes ( talk) 23:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I did a search with Factiva to find the oldest reference to this word in print. The first it came up with was a 1993 article (Brian Lee, "Productivity aid", The Straits Times, 15 December 1993):
It is not unambiguous from that 1993 article that "tooltip" was coined from the ToolTip feature of Word 6.0, but at least this provides an early citation. (In 1994 there were a whole slew of articles mentioning new ToolTip features in Microsoft and third-party applications that year.) A 1995 article (Vinod Anantharaman, "Windows 95 common controls: building blocks for GUI development," Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1 May 1995) also describes and defines "tooltip", indicating that the word is still relatively unfamiliar:
Another 1995 article (Jeff Prosise, "Adding tooltips to your Win 95 apps," PC Magazine, 30 May 1995) confirms that generic support for tooltips was a new feature of Windows 95:
Hope this helps. — Steven G. Johnson ( talk) 14:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
It seems that the final sentence in the Examples section is incomplete. I don't know what the intention was, but maybe someone should finish the sentence or delete it.
I would dispute the sentence "Microsoft's tooltips feature found in its end-user documentation is named ScreenTips". This is not true. The referenced article is only about some Word feature which seems to be called that way, but the sentence in the article suggests that Microsoft always calls them like that, which is not true. For this article, we could say that in some special use cases (Word feature) these Tooltips are called ScreenTips (if this should remain at all). -- 165.222.56.133 ( talk) 15:24, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
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Hovering over a control elicits display of the tooltip text. However, the text disappears after a few seconds. Has the length of time the display is visible been defined? Can it be specified by the developer?-- 151.200.244.58 09:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
In Windows it is defined in system registry, and is not definable from one program to another. However certain programs (such as Tweak UI) can manipulate it as global system behaviour. yet another Matt 16:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
What do you see as a difference between Tooltip and Ballon Help ? AlainD ( talk) 22:49, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
"With the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, alt no longer displays a tooltip, and title is now used instead."
IE 8 still supports ATL as tooltip when TITLE is not present. Only when both are present, TITLE is used as tooltip instead of ALT. laoloup ( talk) 01:05, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but I think it sucks...there have to be *some* sources, right? It looks like some kind of uncommon technology that just came out and not many people know about it. This technology has been in existence for years and this is all we have? Why do we use the word tooltip in the summary? Isn't that a bit like defining a word by using itself? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.21.63.188 ( talk) 22:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Nice sweeping decision. If you're going to judge the entire article, base your decision on the article, not one detail that is generally ignored by the end user anyway. Also, a summary is not a definition, they aren't even synonyms. Furthermore, merely using the word does not make a circular definition, in fact try making one without the word; it's impossible.
PS: If you're going to complain, remember, you can edit the article too.
Marky1991 ( talk) 21:45, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
OK, here's an example of why this article needs work: "The tooltip is used for providing an interface between pointer and push button generally." I'm not even close to sure what this means. It might be correct, but it's really unclear, so it's been removed. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
72.225.213.73 (
talk) 03:33, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Generally, a tooltip has five aspects:
Integrated support for all five aspects is provided in the page notes approach to tooltips. Page Notes ( talk) 23:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
I did a search with Factiva to find the oldest reference to this word in print. The first it came up with was a 1993 article (Brian Lee, "Productivity aid", The Straits Times, 15 December 1993):
It is not unambiguous from that 1993 article that "tooltip" was coined from the ToolTip feature of Word 6.0, but at least this provides an early citation. (In 1994 there were a whole slew of articles mentioning new ToolTip features in Microsoft and third-party applications that year.) A 1995 article (Vinod Anantharaman, "Windows 95 common controls: building blocks for GUI development," Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1 May 1995) also describes and defines "tooltip", indicating that the word is still relatively unfamiliar:
Another 1995 article (Jeff Prosise, "Adding tooltips to your Win 95 apps," PC Magazine, 30 May 1995) confirms that generic support for tooltips was a new feature of Windows 95:
Hope this helps. — Steven G. Johnson ( talk) 14:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
It seems that the final sentence in the Examples section is incomplete. I don't know what the intention was, but maybe someone should finish the sentence or delete it.
I would dispute the sentence "Microsoft's tooltips feature found in its end-user documentation is named ScreenTips". This is not true. The referenced article is only about some Word feature which seems to be called that way, but the sentence in the article suggests that Microsoft always calls them like that, which is not true. For this article, we could say that in some special use cases (Word feature) these Tooltips are called ScreenTips (if this should remain at all). -- 165.222.56.133 ( talk) 15:24, 30 July 2021 (UTC)