Re: How to create palette buttons with tooltips?
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- Subject: [mg124173] Re: How to create palette buttons with tooltips?
- From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:20:58 -0500 (EST)
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The tooltip option can easily be migrated to the notebook level, where it'll
affect everything in the notebook:
CreatePalette[
Tooltip[Button["Button", Appearance -> "Palette"], "Tooltip"],
TooltipBoxOptions -> {TooltipDelay -> Automatic}]
Unfortunately, Button's Appearance option cannot benefit from a similar
treatment because Button[], by default, hardcodes the value of
ButtonBoxOptions->{Appearance->Automatic} at the ButtonBox level, which
overrides anything specified at the notebook level (there has been discussion
about changing this in future versions).
I would suggest just making a function called PaletteButton which creates a
Button with the right options.
Sincerely,
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:43 -0500 (EST), Szabolcs wrote:
> What is the most convenient way to create palette buttons with tooltips
> that use the OS-wide tooltip delay?
>
> Currently I am using
>
> CreatePalette@
> Tooltip[Button["Button", Appearance -> "Palette"], "Tooltip",
> TooltipDelay -> Automatic]
>
> But this seems like a lot of work (both TooltipDelay -> Automatic and
> Appearance -> "Palette" needed) just to get the behvaiour which could be
> expected as a default from a palette.
>
> When I have several buttons, what's the simplest and most concise way to
> do this?