Everything about Tooltip
Graphical user interface element
The tooltip is a common graphical user interface (GUI) element in which, when hovering over a screen element or component, a text box displays information about that element, such as a description of a button's function, what an abbreviation stands for, or the exact absolute time stamp over a relative time. In common practice, the tooltip is displayed continuously as long as the user hovers over the element or the text box provided by the tool. It is sometimes possible for the mouse to hover within the text box provided to activate a nested tooltip, and this can continue to any depth, often with multiple text boxes overlapped. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TooltipA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Effect of tooltip profile and tilt angle on Al8090-TiH 2 /Al 2 O 3 foam and its mechanical characterizationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Get Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 97! - Illustrated InteractiveThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: High speed tooltip FRF predictions of arbitrary tool-holder combinations based on operational spindle identificationCited 74 times
- Go sideways: MouseoverA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Cursor (user interface)A closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Noun An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally used to explain the function of the item.
Verb To add a tooltip to a user interface element.
Verb To cause a tooltip to appear by hovering over a UI element.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
High speed tooltip FRF predictions of arbitrary tool-holder combinations based on operational spindle identification
User experiences of TORPEDO: TOoltip-poweRed Phishing Email DetectiOn
Study of ultrasonic assisted cryogenically cooled EDM process using sintered (Cu–TiC) tooltip
Video Processing to Locate the Tooltip Position in Surgical Eye–Hand Coordination Tasks
A metrological approach for Augmented Reality tooltip tracking assessment
Surgical tooltip motion metrics assessment using virtual marker: an objective approach to skill assessment for minimally invasive surgery
Monocular 3D Tooltip Tracking in Robotic Surgery—Building a Multi-Stage Pipeline
Effect of tool path strategy and tooltip profile on geometrical feature and surface quality of Al-6061 alloy during deformation machining in bending mode
🆕 Influential since 2022
Effect of tooltip profile and tilt angle on Al8090-TiH 2 /Al 2 O 3 foam and its mechanical characterization
Surgical tooltip localization via concentric nested square markers and depth-RGB multi-coordinate fusion
CLEANSurgiTip: A Contamination Limiting, Expendable, and Novel Surgical Tooltip for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
INDIRECT TOOLTIP FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION MEASUREMENT: AN APPLICATION OF SURFACE LOCATION ERROR
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕Get Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 97! - Illustrated InteractiveMac Mendelsohn · 1997
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