[GRASS-dev] grass63 -text startup screen

[Michael Barton]

You can't use tooltips on a text startup screen. For the TclTk startup, the
widgets don't support this kind of help. Rewriting the startup to allow
mouseover help is possible but non-trivial.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:23:56 +0100
> To: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] grass63 -text startup screen
> 
> Hamish wrote:
>> 
>> sorry if I missed the answer, but what became of the idea to use multi-
>> sentence tool-tips to explain each field?
> 
> Well Helena said it was a good idea but I didn't receive any further
> replies. Have to admit I wouldn't actually know where to look to change
> it myself.
> 
> Paul
> 
>