Tool tips tricky to use - UI issue

[phantomwhale]

I have found an annoyance with the tool tips in the UI.

Once you have a tool tip open, you seem to need to move your cursor quite far away from the point it is at to open another tool tip.

So in the example screen shot (attached) my cursor (which I had to draw back in, as print screen doesn't capture it !) is hovering over the Armor Proficiency feat. But I want to look at the tool tip for Druidic weapons, and the only way to do this now is to move my cursor quite far away, into another column, then bring it back and hope it rests on Druidic weapons when the tool tip kicks in. If I accidently hover over Shield Proficiency below it, then I need to repeat the process.

Sometimes it can take 10-20 seconds of cursor re-aiming to get the tool tip you want to appear, which is painful.

Moving the cursor slowly upwards, you get every other entries tool tip appearing. Downwards it's worse with 1 in 4 or 5 appearing. I would expect a nice slow cursor scroll to bring up every tool tip in the list.

[rob]

At 06:29 PM 3/12/2007, you wrote:

Once you have a tool tip open, you seem to need to move your cursor quite far away from the point it is at to open another tool tip.

This one is already on our bug list. Initial investigations yielded no clues as to why this is happening, so it's going to take some indepth debugging to figure out. As a result, we deferred this until we get a couple more things in that we consider a priority. With a little luck, all those items will be in by the end of this week, after which we can delve into issues like this one.

-Rob

[Colen]

At 07:29 PM 3/12/2007, you wrote:
>I have found an annoyance with the tool tips in the UI.
>
>Once you have a tool tip open, you seem to need to move your cursor
>quite far away from the point it is at to open another tool tip.
>
>So in the example screen shot (attached) my cursor (which I had to
>draw back in, as print screen doesn't capture it !) is hovering over
>the Armor Proficiency feat. But I want to look at the tool tip for
>Druidic weapons, and the only way to do this now is to move my
>cursor quite far away, into another column, then bring it back and
>hope it rests on Druidic weapons when the tool tip kicks in. If I
>accidently hover over Shield Proficiency below it, then I need to
>repeat the process.
>
>Sometimes it can take 10-20 seconds of cursor re-aiming to get the
>tool tip you want to appear, which is painful.
>
>Moving the cursor slowly upwards, you get every other entries tool
>tip appearing. Downwards it's worse with 1 in 4 or 5 appearing. I
>would expect a nice slow cursor scroll to bring up every tool tip in the list.


That's exactly what should be happening. Thanks for the report -
we'll do our best to get this fixed.



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Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
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