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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Basic Description==<br />
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Tooltips are a visual hint provided to the user when they hover the mouse over a user interface element. On most platforms this is in the form of a small yellow-ish window containing descriptive text.<br />
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Tooltips are available for some widgets starting in ASL 1.0.18.<br />
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==Semantics / Rationale==<br />
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Tooltips are not really a standalone entity; rather, they are an augmentation to preexisting widgets.<br />
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==Requirements==<br />
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A tooltip for a widget is defined using the <code>alt</code> tag in a layout. For example:<br />
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my_button(name: "Put them in the iron maiden", alt: "Execute them!");<br />
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==API==<br />
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The API is implementation-defined on a per-platform basis; in the case of Mac OS X and Windows XP, this can be reduced to a single API call that augments a control/window with tooltip metadata.<br />
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==Other Issues==<br />
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none.<br />
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==Related Work==<br />
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none.</div>FosterBrereton