Tool tips on truncated text

[ujay]

Tool tips on truncated text in Playlist and/or ML. - what are the chances ?

I find the lack one of the most irritating things about Winamp these days.

UJ

[DrO]

is one of the additional downsides to being a custom control instead of using something like the listview (like the ml uses) which would automatically do the tooltips for clipped output. i do agree that it would make sense to be able to do it.

-daz

[DrO]

from a not so quick check of things, most of the ml just needed a flag set on the listview controls for it to show the tooltip on clipped text (LVS_EX_INFOTIP for the techy types). so that will be present in any updates.

with the playlist editor, it's somewhat more complex as the handling needs to be coded in from scratch which i've just had a mess about doing (making a plus from not being able to sleep) and have got it to do something like in the attached screenshot. it's not stable, always shows the tooltip even if it's not needed and the skinning is handled poorly (due to how the tooltip skinning is currently in gen_ml - but that's a grumble for another time).

did have it un-skinned but that looks weird (wrong font, etc) but skinning at the moment is killing the tooltip being re-shown for the next item so it's all sort of there but isn't, heh. so will probably do some more on this the next time i'm not able to sleep.

-daz

[ujay]

WOW ... that's great daz
I'll keep an eye out for any new builds.

If it's just a flag can it be configured to switch on/off, some folks don't like tooltips.

I was expecting the Playlist to be a bonus

UJ

[DrO]

it'd be more work to add in a toggle option than i really want to spend on this on and since there was a mis-match of it being used or not used already, it's probably better to just go consistently on things and have it always enabled and i'll deal with any abuse that comes from people not liking it

-daz

[ujay]

Thanks daz, ML looks to be working a treat

Album list view is fine, but fails in the Album Art view. I'm guessing because this doesn't use the same text rendering. Always has been a bit quirky.

Great work

UJ

[DrO]

Originally Posted by ujay

fails in the Album Art view. I'm guessing because this doesn't use the same text rendering. Always has been a bit quirky.

that needs how the album art view is handled to be changed to manually do the tooltips rather than leaving the listview to do it (unlike with the other listviews as you've seen). ran out of time to try to look into that since it's been more of an issue since i made it so the artwork can be shown without the title below it.

-daz

[ujay]

Hi daz, just caught up with myself and taken a closer look at the Album Art view.
There is no problem with the icon views, only the details view,

[additional] I'll re phrase that - There's not much of a problem with the AA icon views, seems to be not triggering TTs when the string length is just a little oversize for the view, but works fine if it's well oversize.

Woud a horizontal slider be an easier way to handle the Album Art details view ?
Not sure I go for the idea though, and maybe it doesn't matter much anyway, I can live without it.

What you've done is fine by me

UJ

[DrO]

Originally Posted by ujay

I'll re phrase that - There's not much of a problem with the AA icon views, seems to be not triggering TTs when the string length is just a little oversize for the view, but works fine if it's well oversize.

yeah, that matches with what is expected (but has been deemed as a bug by some).

Originally Posted by ujay

Woud a horizontal slider be an easier way to handle the Album Art details view ?
Not sure I go for the idea though, and maybe it doesn't matter much anyway, I can live without it.

ah the details view, that wouldn't have had anything like tooltips added to it since that's all custom drawn without consideration for such things. think there was a request for a tooltip for them anyway not too long back, but it's a bit of a weird view for getting things in as the area is controlled by the right-edge of the details shown. the horizontal scrollbar although an option might look a bit weird anyway. is probably why it was done in the way that it was.

-daz