• Announcing cooltip 1.6

    From et99@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 12 16:40:16 2024
    Announcing cooltip 1.6

    Cooltip is a drop-in upgrade to tooltip 1.6 from Tklib 0.7. It adds support for tips with styles, colors, and unicode up to \uFFFF. Existing code can be used unchanged and new styled tips can be added easily using the included *GUI* editor.

    Styled tips are built as [set] statements which are input and output from the GUI editor via clipboard and then registered:

    set tooltip_N {##<text widget dump>} ;# copy/pasted from GUI tool - copy back to re-edit
    tooltip::tooltip .widget $tooltip_N ;# register the styled tip to .widget

    Cooltip is hosted on the wiki; see here for further details:

    https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/cooltip

    Acknowledgments:

    The GUI builder is an enhancement of Arjen's "Editing with different fonts" from the wiki, and the text dump restore code on the wiki was suggested here by Greg. The tooltip 1.6 code was written by Jeffrey Hobbs. Testing has been with 8.6.9 win/linux(pop-
    os) and win 9.0b1.

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