[lazarus] A Little Cleanup

Curtis White osiriz at teleport.com
Sat Jul 24 22:52:01 EDT 1999



On 25-Jul-99 Michael A. Hess wrote:
> 
> I vote that they stay as tips. As you indicated that is what they are
> called in GTK and I believe QT. I also know that that is what they are
> called in many Windows add-on tools for VB and Delphi and whatever. I
> think that Delphi is the only thing that calls them hints. To me a hint
> sounds like I am cheating. What it really is doing is tipping you off to
> what the tool can do.
> 

I agree with Michael here if we aren't trying to be Delphi compatible. ToolTip
is a much better (more accurate) name for it.


Curtis






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