You can find an example of balloon help if you turn on the preference
balloonHelpInMessageLists and then mouse over messages in a browser. (I
didn't know about that either).

I'm pretty sure the balloon behavior can be maintained but I've had trouble
with it.

Anyone look at Daniel's other changes? Those are more important than the
quibble with width.

Eddie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Way" <dway at riskmetrics.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ENH][Refactor] PLMCleanUpStart (v2)

> Just to throw in my 2 cents again, I think we really should get rid of
> the width: 9999 if at all reasonably possible.  It sounds like Eddie's
> changeset maintains the highlight-the-whole-line behavior, which I
> agree would be good to keep.
>
> For the balloon help, IMHO I think it would be reasonable if you had to
> hover over the string itself, if it proves to messy to maintain the
> current behavior of hovering anywhere on the line.  (Actually I'm
> having trouble finding a place in the image where balloon help is used
> on PLM strings...)
>
> - Doug
>
>
> > Daniel
> >
> > Bob Arning <arning at charm.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:51:17 +0300 Daniel Vainsencher
> >> <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> >>> [how wide the StringMorphs should be made]
> >>> This part of the thread is moot. As Eddie said, removing the
> >>> #width: call completely is the correct solution. It is no
> >>> longer needed, and selection just works.
> >>
> >> It may be a matter of personal taste, but limiting the highlighting
> >> width to that of the characters in the string doesn't seem like an
> >> improvement. The same shortcoming applies to balloon help on list
> >> items.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Bob
>
>
>