Tooltips are the easiest thing in the world to add to our APPs.
As you populate a field onto a window, or as you create a field in your dictionary, simply take a few seconds to jot down what the field is for. These tips are instantly available to your users, while they’re working on your screens, without having to go and scratch around in your documentation unnecessarily.
But “normal” tooltips leave a lot to be desired.
Firstly, they appear for a few seconds, then they disappear, leaving most users wondering where they went and how to get them back again.
Second, the default tips aren’t terribly nice to look at. Plain, bright yellow rectangles, often with badly formatted text.
Enter J-Tooltips…
Simply add the J-Tooltips template to your APP, and recompile.
You will then notice little “question marks” at the top of each window in your APP, as shown above.
If users click on this question mark, their mouse cursor changes to a little pointer with a question mark next to it. They can then click on anything on your screen, and your tooltip for that field will be displayed in a nicely formatted box, over which you have complete control.
Beautiful.
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Useful Links
- Download J-Tooltips
- Download Demo Application
- View Online Documentation
- View Video Tutorials
- Other products by StrategyOnline
- The Blog
Frequently Asked Questions
J-Tooltips
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Clarion
From Windows Vista, you may experience problems running certain Clarion accessory installers, whereby they will not be able to detect your installed versions of Clarion. Please see the following link for more information, as well as a workaround:
If you are experiencing problems compiling our example applications using Clarion 5.5.h, please take a look at the following article:
DebugView is a free application that you can download from Microsoft, which enables you to view debug output from our products. This can be very helpful in tracking down problems.
By default, our products do not generate debug messages, so you will not see anything in DebugView. To enable debug messages, simpy tick the “Send messages to DebugView” option found on each of products’ Global Extension Templates, as shown below.
Once you have turned on the “Send messages to DebugView” option, recompile and run your APP. You should then see messages appearing in DebugView.
Our 3rdParty documentation is now available from within the Clarion 7 IDE.
After installing any of our Clarion 3rdParty products, you can now access our help system as follows…
From within the Clarion 7 IDE, simply click on the “Help” menu, then click on “Accessory”, then “StrategyOnline”. Then click on “Online Product Documentation”.
