[IPP] Extending .strings files / IPP convention to support "tool tips"?

[IPP] Extending .strings files / IPP convention to support "tool tips"?

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 20:05:21 UTC 2018


Hi Smith and Mike,

Cool idea.  I like it and think we should pursue standardizing it.

Cheers,
- Ira

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:25 AM Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards
Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:

> What you described below is very similar to what I was imagining – a
> suffix of some type to establish the connection between the tooltip and the
> label with which it is associated. I hadn’t thought about the help angle,
> but I like that too!
>
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>
> Posting this response to the reflector, so we can discuss in the IPP WG.
>
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>
> Smith
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> *From: *Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> on behalf of Michael Sweet <
> msweet at apple.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 9:01 AM
> *To: *"Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards Architect)" <
> smith.kennedy at hp.com>
> *Subject: *Re: Extending .strings files / IPP convention to support "tool
> tips"?
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>
>
> Smith,
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> It's an interesting idea, although I think it we will still need to limit
> the tooltip to plain Unicode text (vs. some sort of rich text/markup).  A
> simple solution would be to define a convention like adding a "._tooltip"
> to the attribute name/attribute.value string, e.g.:
>
>
>
>     "foo" = "Foo";
>
>     "foo._tooltip" = "This is the tooltip for Foo.";
>
>     "foo.value1" = "Primary Foo";
>
>     "foo.value1._tooltip" = "This is the tooltip for Primary Foo.";
>
>     "foo.value2" = "Secondary Foo";
>
>     "foo.value2._tooltip" = "This is the tooltip for Secondary Foo.";
>
>
>
> The advantage of using "_tooltip" as the identifier is that attribute and
> keyword values cannot start with the underscore.  Conceptually we could
> include multiple such extensions ("_helpurl", etc.) to provide some of the
> same features we have in PPDs on macOS.
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>
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> Initially we can just propose and document it in a white paper, but
> ultimately I think we'd want to make this part of a JPS3 errata update.
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> On Oct 3, 2018, at 12:31 AM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless & Standards
> Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
>
> We have interest in finding a way to get support for adding localized tool
> tips to the .strings files, to go along with the localized label strings.
> Any thoughts on this? I don't think this is covered by 5100.13. The
> convention for associating a tool tip with a particular label string will
> need some additional work.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Smith
>
> /**
>    Smith Kennedy
>    Wireless & Standards Architect - IPG-PPS
>    Standards - IEEE ISTO PWG / Bluetooth SIG / Wi-Fi Alliance / NFC Forum
> / USB-IF
>    Chair, IEEE ISTO Printer Working Group
>    HP Inc.
> */
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