Text field alignments

[Donald Allen]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >     If whoever the gatekeeper is (Derek?) agrees that such a facility
>> >     makes sense, I will offer to try to find the time to write the code
>> >     myself. I can't be sure this will work out, as some of the demands
>> > on
>> >     my time are unpredictable, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
>> >
>> > I've already committed the changes to use right-justification in r17958,
>> > so at
>> > least it is consistent now. I'll defer to Derek as far as whether to add
>> > a
>> > justification option or use tooltips or both. I'm not sure how much work
>> > either of those would take, but I suspect that the change would mainly
>> > involve
>> > the Gnome-specific parts of the register code that I'm unfamiliar with.
>> > So I
>> > may not be the person to do it.
>>
>> I think a tooltip-like popup is a reasonable alternative.
>
> Me too. However I'm not sure how to make it happen. I had a look, and I
> think the register cells might be based on GnomeCanvas stuff that doesn't
> have tooltip features.
> Could someone add an enhancement request to Bugzilla that suggests the
> tooltip and/or a justification user option?

I just added the tooltip enhancement request. I'll hold off on adding
the justification option unless and until we find that the tooltip is
too difficult or impossible.

/Don