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Originally posted by Choli
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
if it is on the right from the center of your screen, then show the tooltips on the left....
we (at least left-to-right languages speaking people) are used to see tooltips at the right of the cursor or button or whatever the tooltip is for, so IMO the tooltip should be displayed on the left only when the window is near enough the right edge of the screen; just when the tooltip wouldn't fit on the right. (that would imply a more complex code, of course)
Yup, thought of that also, but that means that it must process all the tooltips first to get the longest one, calculate the pixels, etc. and do that every time because the length can change if you change the language...
While the method I discribed doesn't depend on language and doesn't need the processing of all tooltips and thus would be faster...
Also, I, personaly, wouldn't mind or find it strange if it was shown on the left, and that's because of the way it is used as a fixed addition to the window.... if it was a normal tooltip (shown beside the mouse cursor), then, yes, I would find it strange if it was shown on the left...
Anyways, it was just a humble example of how to solve it without saying how Patchou should do it of course. I'm certain he'll come up with something nifty
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