Tuesday, March 3, 2009

WHAT I’D LIKE TO SEE: Tooltip Button In Specify Button Dialog

From Dwayne Wright - Certified FileMaker 9 Developer
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This is one of many quick little things I’d like to see in the next version of FileMaker. I agreed to send a list to a fellow blogger before ... but ... was just too busy to build the list. I thought I’d start a series of posts about what I’d like to see the moment I think of them. I tend to like just the little things ... low hanging fruit (if you will).

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ToolTip Button In Specify Button Dialog
To make it easier to add tooltips to a button, why not integrate the two? Right where I assign the action to a button, allow me to put in the tooltip for that button as well. No need to do the mouse aerobics of closing this dialog and then manually opening up the tooltip dialog.

Here is what we have now ....



Here is what I’d like to see ...



WANT SOME MORE?

Check out Tim Dietrich's post FILEMAKER PRO 10: What's Missing? at his FileMaker Addict Blog.

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