Re: Pop-up window on field

Hussayn Dabbous <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:53:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.scarab.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Maybe this is something similar to what i am thinking about ...

This is what i have in mind:
I am thinking of adding a new checkmark to the attribute definition. If 
checked, a small icon
(red question mark?) is rendered near to the field-label. If the icon is 
clicked, a popup opens
showing the already existing field "Description". The popup disappears 
either when the mouse
is moved out of  the popup area, or when the popup is clicked. Default 
behaviour is
"do not show informative popups", so it does not "break the scarab 
standards" ...

I would allow HTML-syntax in the Description field so that you are free 
to fully style the content of the
popup windows. I also would allow i18n entries in the description field, 
so that in principle the popup
could be multi language, although this would need a little more thinking 
beforehand, since it involves
user generated multilingual text which is currently only supported in a 
static way (using resource files)
but here we would like to be able to define multilingual texts from the 
Scarab-GUI and directly use
them... Could be some fancy gimick... or could break our neck ... 
(opinions around ?)

I am about to start some work in this direction in the next days. 
Implementing it will be
very straight forward and should be flexible enough to be usefull for 
many use cases.

Note: This idea only applies to user attributes.

What do you think about it ?

regards,
hussayn

[email protected] wrote:
> I need to explain to the users how to fill a specific field.
> It's enough to have an informative note but i don't want to put the information into the label of the field.
> Could you help me?
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