[AccessD] Tooltips

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

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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
> 
> 
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> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:24 AM
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> 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?
> 
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