{"id":385,"date":"2010-07-19T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/desktop\/2010\/07\/19\/that-tooltip-looks-familiar\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:14:30","slug":"that-tooltip-looks-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2010\/07\/19\/that-tooltip-looks-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"That Tooltip Looks Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of desktop trivia for ya&#8230;. In R2010a we introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2010\/04\/05\/seeing-whats-on-the-search-path\/\">Current Folder visualization<\/a> that dims out files not on the path. If you hover your mouse over one of these files, you&#8217;ll see a yellow tooltip with an information icon, some text, and a button: <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_path_affordance\/path_tooltip.png\" alt=\"Path Affordance Tooltip\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Does this window look familiar to you? It should, it&#8217;s quite similar to the one we introduced with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2009\/03\/16\/click-for-more-information\/\">extended M-Lint messages<\/a> back in R2009a. Here we&#8217;ve got a yellow box, an icon, a message, a little gray button:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/desktop\/michael_katz_click_for_more_information\/mlint_short.png\" alt=\"Extended M-Lint Tooltip\">\n<\/div>\n<p>For the current folder browser, we were able to make use of the work already done, in order to provide information about the path, in a way that is more use-friendly than a basic text tooltip. We&#8217;re planning on using it in a few more places, but we&#8217;re not going to do it for everything, since this kind of tooltip feels bulkier than the regular &#8220;what is this button?&#8221; type.<\/p>\n<p>Have you found this information useful, or have you already disabled the message by clicking on the &#8220;do not show me this again&#8221; button?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of desktop trivia for ya&#8230;. In R2010a we introduced a Current Folder visualization that dims out files not on the path. If you hover your mouse over one of these files,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2010\/07\/19\/that-tooltip-looks-familiar\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}