jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Dec 4 10:03:34 CST 2009
There is no manual. I have my hands full writing the app and they have never bothered to build a manual. They have threatened to once or twice. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Rocky Smolin wrote: > The tooltip would only appear if they hovered in the right place for a > couple of seconds. If they drop down the combo box and don't see what they > think they should, won't you get the same response/support call? A label > next to the box saying "this combo box contains only..." would be more > effective but then you've probably got real estate problems. RTFM? Or is > there no M? > > R > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:24 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Tooltips > > >I've always thought that clearly labeled text boxes and command buttons > were sufficient. > > I have been struggling to get a version released at one specific client. > Yesterday I get a call that "there is no scroll bar for policy holder > location" and we are backing the new version out. > > Well... it turns out this is simply combo filtering, it has always been this > way and the combo only displays WORK locations, but there was only one user > that actually knew that. The location that the users expected to see in the > combo had never been flagged as a work location and so was not visible. > > Now... having spent a half hour discovering this, I could "document it" in > the ToolTip. Would anyone ever read the tool tip? That is a different > discussion entirely. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Rocky Smolin wrote: >> I do not use them. PITA if you want to do them consistently. If you >> start down that road then the user will be expecting them everywhere >> for an indication of what the control is for. I've always thought >> that clearly labeled text boxes and command buttons were sufficient. >> >> Rocky >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby >> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:24 AM >> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >> Subject: [AccessD] Tooltips >> >> Does anyone actually use ToolTips in an organized aggressive fashion? >> Like fill them in on dozens or hundreds of controls in an application? >> >> If so do you bother with a method of storing them in a table so that >> they can be found and edited? >> >> -- >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >