Posted on January 5, 2006 by Doolwind

Help! Bubbles!

Just a quick note to say I’ve finished the initial implementation of my ‘Help Bubble System’. Each User Interface item (button, image etc) can have two pieces of help information added to them. When you mouse over the item for a few seconds a small help bubble is displayed, and if you keep mousing over for a little longer a second, more detailed, bubble is displayed. I also quickly rewrote my user interface parser so it now reads in all of the key-values pairs for a user interface control and can parse them in any order. This allows me to add fields that are not required, such as help info. Below is a screenshot showing an example with both levels of help bubble displayed.