Tooltips for App and Driver

📢 Feedback Feature Requests
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Having written multiple drivers I find that sometimes it would be beneficial to add some type of description for a command button or for settings input.

The typical way of doing this would be to add a tooltip that displays when the cursor hovers over the button\field. Is something like this possible in HE.

Thx.

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Yes, it is possible to add tooltips and some of the built-in apps have this feature implemented. When creating own app or driver, you need to < style > the element and define the expected behavior on hover.

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Note also that, at least for custom commands, you can provide additional information, at least for the parameters, that will be displayed in a tooltip:

command "myCommand", [[name:"myParameter",type:"NUMBER", description:"Description that will show in tooltip"] /*, other parameters, */ ]

Most "stock" commands have something specified here too (and can be overridden by declaring the command like a custom one, though I wouldn't do that without a good reason).

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Thanks for the response. Yes I have seen that one and I use it but as you said it's main purpose is to explain the parameters vs the command.

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Thanks, that is helpful. Is the code for any of these built in apps available to look at for an example of how this is used?