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Feature request: DESCR popup

list Henrik Størner
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:31:45 +0200
Message-Id: <user-fa9a812c515a@xymon.invalid>

Hi Marco,

I've raised the limit on the size of messages to 100 KB, but the
preferred method really is a patch file - but if possible please
use "diff -u" when generating the patch, because this is much easier
to read - and apply, if my source-tree has been modified compared
to your original tree (which is very likely).

I looked at the patch you sent, but either you left out some of it,
or I don't quite understand how it works. As far as I can see your
patch doesnt change the way the static pages generated by bbgen
are built - there's a change to bbdisplay/loadbbhosts.c where you
pick up the tooltip setting, but it doesn't seem like it is used
for anything but as a replacement for the COMMENT: setting. I had
expected a change to bbdisplay/pagegen.c also ?

Reading up on what the "span" tag does in HTML 4, I think I can guess what your code does. So I'll get that incorporated.


Regards,
Henrik

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:27:01AM +0200, Schoemaker, M.C.Z. wrote:
I'm new to the list. I already modified hobbit server to allow a TOOLTIP tag for hosts. This displays a tooltip box when hovering over the hostname. Ofcourse same should be done for the status dots etc. Tooltips are heavily underappreciated and can be extremely useful in limiting the amount of mouse clicks in order to get detailed information or help.

I can sent the few lines I changed to implement the tooltips. I use browser supported HTML and CSS instead of javascript etc.