Bugzilla – Bug 1201
Mac OS X: Toolbar handle tooltips only visible on mouse down
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:46:03 UTC
I have noticed these: * Transport Toolbar * Tools Toolbar * Meter Toolbars (both) * Edit Toolbar * Timeline * Selection and Spectral Selection Toolbars * Timetext Controls
If I View > Toolbars > Reset Toolbars, the tooltips appear reliably in all toolbars. Tooltips "sometimes" appear if I remove a toolbar then add it back using View > Toolbars. Tooltips "sometimes" appear if I move into an offending toolbar from Device Toolbar (which always has tooltips).
Seems ok on W7 But the Edit Toolbar only has a tooltip for the toolbar itself - there appear to be no tooltips for the individual command buttons in the toolbar - it would be useful and helpful to add those. Similarly the Selection toolbar has no tooltips for its constituent components.
(In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #2) > Seems ok on W7 > > The Edit Toolbar only has a tooltip for the toolbar itself - there appear > to be no tooltips for the individual command buttons in the toolbar - it > would be useful and helpful to add those. I think the individual tooltips are there when the button is active. Draw a selection to see that.
Fixed at: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/9b21e11ff6665d3398e745de8c8881eda3dd4e7d I consider this more important than P4, since discoverability was so important with the scrubbing initiative, and scrubbing now has a toolbar. This fix allows tooltips that the program defines to appear more readily on Mac. Peter mentions the lack of tooltips for Selection toolbar -- but the program does not define any such tooltips, except for Snap To.
Testing on on Mac El Capitan d6187f6 21Jun16 The tooltips on the Macbook Pro do seem a lot motre resposive and come up quite quickly. There appears to be the same set that I see on Windows - with the big exception that on Mac none of the toolbars has a tip to say what the toolbar is when you hover over its drag handle - on W10 the drag-handles display such tooltips. I do not think we can close this until we fix this too.
Just discoverd on Mac that if you undock a toolbar you can then get a tooltip from the drag handle - but only once. Even closing and restarting Audacity with the undocked toolbars will not then yield the drah-handle tooltips
I agree (now we have Scrubbing toolbar) it might have been P3, but it is much improved now. I also tested adding or removing keyboard shortcuts and observed the tooltips updated correctly. I reopened (still at P4) as "Mac OS X: Toolbar handle tooltips only visible on mouse down" which I think describes what happens.
Note that this fix improves not just the toolbar grabbers, but also the resizers, which appear to the right of device toolbar and meters. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/21ea9a5ead8f85739adcf4cbdf139f000e987084
Works for meesting on d618716 29Jun build on Mac that Gale built for me All the toolbar drag handles have tooltips. Also get tooltips and repeat tooltips when you undock any of the toolbars. I note that on Mac the Transport Toolbar buttons always ghve tooltips regardless of whether a particular button funcion is available. On W10 you only get a button yooltip if the button action is available. I think the Mac behaviour is to be preferred.
Seems OK to me on Mac too. I get the tooltip on mouseover, get it if I mouse-down (even if I mouse-downed before the tooltip showed) and retain the tooltip on mouse up. This is so if toolbars are floated or docked. (In reply to Peter Sampson from comment #9) > I note that on Mac the Transport Toolbar buttons always ghve tooltips > regardless of whether a particular button funcion is available. On W10 > you only get a button yooltip if the button action is available. I think > the Mac behaviour is to be preferred. Thanks Peter. Yes this is a wx3 Windows regresssion bug it seems. I added it at bug 1565.
