2.5.5  Tooltips And Selection

Tooltips in this application work as expected. For most widgets, hovering over them will display an explanatory tooltip after a few seconds. However, in the case of entry fields, in order not to interfere with typing, tooltips only come up when you hover over an entry field's label rather than the entry box itself. Tooltips are also used on the values displayed in information fields so that if they get truncated by the size of the window then one can always view their full value via a tooltip.

Most text items can be selected in the normal way with the mouse. However, the values in all information fields can also be selected. In the case where the value gets truncated then one can still select the entire value by treble left clicking with the mouse.

The following figure illustrates the two points made above in a rather artificial way. It shows a Monotone Browser window where the user has treble left clicked on the value inside the File field and then moved the mouse over to the Change Log field.

Figure 2-7  A Monotone Browser Window Showing Tooltips And Text Selection