Bugzilla – Bug 74
Include current slider setting in slider hover tooltips
Last modified: 2018-08-20 11:51:35 UTC
GA: Too fiddly and undiscoverable for sighted users to have to click on slider to read the current setting. Also consider a finer increment for tooltip (at least 0.0, 0.05, 0.1 ...?) given the wide spacing of the ticks. Isn't the 6 point accuracy of the text input specious (as well as outside Audacity's control)? I'd prefer to see 2 point accuracy and probably that accuracy should be used for the tooltip as well.
Another problem is that the "click-to-discover-the-current-setting" tooltip competes with and can partially obscure the hover tooltip. See also Bug 171 where our hover tooltips are obscured by the mouse pointer on Mac, primarily because the tooltips are not left-aligned with the pointer as is normal for all three OS'es.
(In reply to comment #1) > Another problem is that the "click-to-discover-the-current-setting" tooltip > competes with and can partially obscure the hover tooltip. Vaughan/Gale agree that the hover tooltip should be hidden when we raise the drag tooltip.
(In reply to comment #2) > Vaughan/Gale agree that the hover tooltip should be hidden when we raise the > drag tooltip. Michael has done this in http://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/detail?r=10795. It works OK for me on Ubuntu 10:10 and Win 7, though the hide isn't quick on Win 7 here - takes nearly 1 second to work after the drag tip appears.
Created attachment 361 [details] Show slider setting in hover tooltips Adds the slider setting (2 decimal places) to the hover tool-tip. Also sets the "on drag" tool tip to 2 decimal places to match. When dragging a slider the status bar should indicate the initial position of the the slider (as was shown in the "on hover" tool tip) while the "on drag" tool tip displays the current position.
(In reply to comment #4) Thanks Steve, this is a big improvement (only tested on Windows 7 so far). I think the intention of this enhancement was also to add the slider setting to the tooltip for Play-at-Speed. Is that something you could do? We have bug 75 "TrackInfo lacks hover tooltips". I think we need a new enhancement related to this one "Precise slider adjustment windows need hover tooltip" (covering the input/output and Play-at-Speed sliders). Then we could (I presume) apply the fix for the current bug to the tooltips in those windows. This would look more consistent if you switch from the toolbar slider as fixed to its precise adjustment window slider.
The current patch works OK on Mac, but there is a behaviour that was there pre-patch in that if you drag the slider then release, the tooltip never comes back until you move the mouse again. On Windows or Linux you see the standard tootip when you release. The same happens in GarageBand sliders so unless Leland thinks otherwise I suggest ignoring that.
(In reply to comment #5) Found to be OK so committed.
RESOLVED - FIXED r12262. (In reply to comment #5) > I think the intention of this enhancement was also to add the slider setting to > the tooltip for Play-at-Speed. Now at bug 626. > I think we need a new enhancement related to this one "Precise slider adjustment > windows need hover tooltip" (covering the input/output and Play-at-Speed sliders). Now at bug 625.
