Re: Graphical Explain Tooltip

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Graphical Explain Tooltip
Date: 2011-07-11 14:27:44
Message-ID: CA+OCxoxGrymwArBFQwWJKgXys2ijcWVTjF2Cfm0hS2Cc3Zw4tQ@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks, applied.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ashesh Vashi <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Current behaviour of the ExplainPopup, requires a mouse click on the
> ExplainShape to show it.
> A lot of user will not able to figure out that until
> they accidentally click on that shape or read the documents carefully.
>
> Also - current implementation does not allow to use the ExplainCanvas in a
> modal dialog.
> For some experiment, I tried to use the ExplainCanvas in a modal dialog and
> clicked on a shape.
>
> A lot of time on linux, this scenario resulted in a crash or unstable
> pgadmin application.
>
> The attached patch enables the ExplainPopup to behave like the tooltip for
> those shapes.
> As per my conversation with Dave, I have extended the ExplainPopup using
> wxTransientPopup or, wxFrame
> (where not available wxPopWindow i.e. Mac), just like the wxTipWindow, and
> also worked on the border around the
> ExplainText.
>
> I have tested it on all the platforms (i.e. OSX 10.6, Window 7 & Ubuntu
> 10.04)
>
> --
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ashesh Vashi
> EnterpriseDB INDIA: Enterprise PostgreSQL Company<http://www.enterprisedb.com>
>
>
>
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>
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