Annoyance - Column Type Long Text

BetterRed · 08-28-2016, 07:01 PM

This is NOT a new behaviour, as far as I know it's been ever thus. Just that it's been annoying me lately - old age crotchetiness perhaps.

If I put an image in a long text custom column, and I display the column in the book list (so that I can edit the cells via F2) then when the mouse pointer traverses the cell the image is displayed momentarily in a popup window.

The image popup will 'stick' if the mouse pointer 'hovers' over the cell - providing the image is smaller than the monitor, if its bigger it pops up momentarily, move the mouse a tad and it and pops again.

If the column contains text it pops up as a modest tool tip, which is irritating but tolerable.

I normally cloak long text custom columns with a column icon, but that doesn't alter the behaviour.

Possible solutions: Don't do it at all. Make the popup optional. Increase the hover time before the image window pops up - maybe even make it tweakable, currently it appears to be instantaneous.

Not displaying the column in the book list is not an acceptable solution.

BR

kovidgoyal · 08-28-2016, 10:04 PM

Preferences->Look & Feel->Show tooltips in the book list

BetterRed · 08-28-2016, 11:11 PM

I do find the booklist tooltips useful when I want to see all of a value for text column, such as authors, tags etc, when it's truncated, so I'd rather not lose them.

On reflection, I think the reason I've put up with the 'flashing' images until now is because I discovered a long time ago that they're 'tooltips', and then I forgot that. However, I've recently had cause to add quite few books where I've found it convenient to put links to large images in custom comments.

Would it be possible to have an option/tweak to a) suppress images being displayed in book list tooltips, or b) suppress book list tooltips on custom long text cells. If not I'll have to conjure up another approach.

BR

kovidgoyal · 08-28-2016, 11:16 PM

Not worth the effort for me, patches are welcome.

BetterRed · 08-28-2016, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Not worth the effort for me, patches are welcome.

No worries, I'll convert them to regular links, and use my regular image viewer if/when I want to see them.

BR

08-28-2016, 07:01 PM	#1
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,703 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Annoyance - Column Type Long Text This is NOT a new behaviour, as far as I know it's been ever thus. Just that it's been annoying me lately - old age crotchetiness perhaps. If I put an image in a long text custom column, and I display the column in the book list (so that I can edit the cells via F2) then when the mouse pointer traverses the cell the image is displayed momentarily in a popup window. The image popup will 'stick' if the mouse pointer 'hovers' over the cell - providing the image is smaller than the monitor, if its bigger it pops up momentarily, move the mouse a tad and it and pops again. If the column contains text it pops up as a modest tool tip, which is irritating but tolerable. I normally cloak long text custom columns with a column icon, but that doesn't alter the behaviour. Possible solutions: Don't do it at all. Make the popup optional. Increase the hover time before the image window pops up - maybe even make it tweakable, currently it appears to be instantaneous. Not displaying the column in the book list is not an acceptable solution. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-28-2016 at 08:00 PM.

08-28-2016, 11:11 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,703 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	I do find the booklist tooltips useful when I want to see all of a value for text column, such as authors, tags etc, when it's truncated, so I'd rather not lose them. On reflection, I think the reason I've put up with the 'flashing' images until now is because I discovered a long time ago that they're 'tooltips', and then I forgot that. However, I've recently had cause to add quite few books where I've found it convenient to put links to large images in custom comments. Would it be possible to have an option/tweak to a) suppress images being displayed in book list tooltips, or b) suppress book list tooltips on custom long text cells. If not I'll have to conjure up another approach. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-28-2016 at 11:16 PM.

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08-28-2016, 10:04 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,311 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Preferences->Look & Feel->Show tooltips in the book list

08-28-2016, 11:16 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,311 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not worth the effort for me, patches are welcome.

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