08-30-2011, 09:18 PM | #1 |
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how to turn off pop up box
Hi. I was wondering if there is a way to turn off the box that pops up when I leave my mouse over the book details, the one that talks about the book details window, path and cover size as I find it hard to read the book summary when there's a box in the way. I've tried to look around this site for n answer but don't know what the box is called so it's been a bit difficult. I'm using version 8.16. Thank you for any help you can give.
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The pop-up boxes are a system level facility. If you turn it off at the operating system level then it becomes disabled for all programs, not just Calibre.
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08-30-2011, 11:09 PM | #4 |
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okay. well thanks for the info any ways
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It's entirely possible that it's enabled by default by the programming toolkit (Qt?) which Calibre uses; I'm sure that Kovid can answer that question. |
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It would be possible to protect every attempt to set a tooltip according to preference settings in the application, but in reality for many applications this would be an inordinate amount of additional code and thus will not happen. Certainly in Calibre which makes a very wide usage of tooltips there is no such level of control. |
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