tool tip help with SM GUI

birdster · 19 Jun 2008

Very handy thanks 🙂

birdster

Tom7777 · 19 Jun 2008

Theres a bug, if you click in the knob area before the tooltip appears and hold and release outside of the knobs area the tooltip appears when it shouldn't, i was going to try and fix this with the xy after drag workaround but i ran into another (imo) bug i had forgotten about from the past i found, if you add the drag xy module and connect its mouse messages connection, and go back to move the knob you find its locked/frozen, i remember malc told me it wasn't a bug and theres a way around it but i forget the solution.

kirkagur · 20 Jun 2008

Tom7777 wrote: Theres a bug, if you click in the knob area before the tooltip appears and hold and release outside of the knobs area the tooltip appears when it shouldn't, i was going to try and fix this with the xy after drag workaround but i ran into another (imo) bug i had forgotten about from the past i found, if you add the drag xy module and connect its mouse messages connection, and go back to move the knob you find its locked/frozen, i remember malc told me it wasn't a bug and theres a way around it but i forget the solution.

i had the same problem with the drag mouse

now i am thinking it can be done with the after click module...(i hope)

Tom7777 · 20 Jun 2008

i had the same problem with the drag mouse

now i am thinking it can be done with the after click module...(i hope)

Yeah imo it's a bug and annoying, maybe if others want it sorted also it might get fixed and i hope it will sometime, if by after click module you mean the Mouse Lup module that will do the same i think only not freeze it, basically the bug is doing something like making a limit to 1 active mouse based module and you have the mouse over module there so Lup doesnt function when added. 😕 Imo one should be able to connect as many modules to the mouse area as wanted without limitations or some funny result which is why i think its a bug.

kirkagur · 20 Jun 2008

Tom7777 wrote: mouse based module and you have the mouse over module there so Lup doesnt function when added. 😕 Imo one should be able to connect as many modules to the mouse area as wanted without limitations or some funny result which is why i think its a bug.

there is more then this to do with the GUI primitiv.

this is one of the most important thing that i need to complete a design, that with 1 knob module you can make the entire synth knobs or ,synced knobs, in different position in the GUI. !

i hope you can understand what i just said here.

Tom7777 · 20 Jun 2008

Do you mean that it's stopping you from making other stuff in a project, yeah i have had this bug before stopping me from doing things and it gets very annoying. Maybe we should make a post in the bugs area of the forum with a basic example, i think its a bug due to the restrictions it makes and hopefully if enough people agree malc will fix it so it works as you would expect (connect as many mouse event modules as you wish).

infuzion · 21 Jun 2008

Tom7777 wrote: I have had this bug before stopping me from doing things and it gets very annoying. Maybe we should make a post in the bugs area of the forum with a basic example, I think its a bug due to the restrictions...

Would be good to report the bug. Even if the current restrictions are on purpose by design, then that fact should be better documented (in the official docs & on the WIKI).

Tom7777 · 22 Jun 2008

Just posted in the bugs section about this. 🙂

AngularMomentum · 24 Aug 2008

Is it really a bug? I had a go at a tooltip, with parameter name and value, and I guess it is just when you move out of the mouse area, it will not show the tool tip, which is kind of an expected behaviour imo...maybe the mouse area should get a new feature where one is allowed to go outside the area if there is no mouse click up?

Tom7777 · 25 Aug 2008

Is it really a bug? I had a go at a tooltip, with parameter name and value, and I guess it is just when you move out of the mouse area, it will not show the tool tip, which is kind of an expected behaviour imo...maybe the mouse area should get a new feature where one is allowed to go outside the area if there is no mouse click up?

Yeah, if followed what i said above you will be able to get it to happen, when i say in the knob area i mean in the corner of the panel, control name label etc so not the part which adjusts the knobs value but its background area, and definately not expected behavior imo, say you were just clicking randomly (dunno why but someone might do it) and they left the area and you were hovering over a completely different control the tooltip would appear.

The locking of mouse events restriction probably isn't a bug but a limit that SM currently has, it's annoying for sure and makes making stuff like this annoying imo.