Instant tooltips

posted on June 29th, 2011, 10:21 pm

Would it be easy to re-add the option for tooltips to appear instantly?

posted on June 29th, 2011, 10:25 pm

if you are referring to the side tooltip thing from stock a2 there readded in my mod but i dont know the coding to enable it in stock fo guess it cant be too hard

posted on June 29th, 2011, 10:29 pm

In FO, the insta tooltip and verbose tooltips are offset by a millisecond or something, so appear to be just 'one' tooltip (1.000 vs 1.001 seconds). Probably moving it to the side requires a GUI change

[Anonymous]

posted on June 29th, 2011, 10:49 pm

Last edited by Anonymous on June 29th, 2011, 10:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I kind of liked the tooltip options in the top-right of the screen.  They could be toggled to delayed, instant, or off.  When delayed, the short tooltip would appear then a few seconds later, the long tooltip would appear, both would appear where the mouse is.  If instant, the short tooltip would appear where the mouse is, but the long tooltip would appear instantly on the side.

I also liked the fact that the short tooltip displayed the vessel's special weapons, although I think fleet-ops would be able to do a much neater job of it than A2 did.

EDIT:
By the way, I just tested the import mod that Blade released and the option to do instant tooltips is there.  Fleet Ops probably left out that GUI element so the button wouldn't appear, but the button appears and works in the A2 Import mod.

And what was Activision thinking making a button hide the command pallet when you selected a unit?