Suggestion: Make command prompts visible for all items

When moving the mouse over a menu or toolbar button (without choosing anything), a brief description of each item is shown in place of the status bar at the bottom left of the screen.

Well, almost… :wink: Only enabled options are shown - Those that are greyed-out don’t have any description.

It’s not that a reminder is needed for each and every option, but there’s been more than once I’ve looked for a reminder only to discover the item wasn’t active and therefore had no help prompt. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice.

Also, this is probably specific to the dark theme, but the prompt text is black on a dark grey background and difficult to read (on both Windows and Linux). I’ve not looked into the CSS to see exactly what it is, though.

Thanks for a superb product, at any rate.

Hi Len,

Hmmmm, can’t confirm that here with Win10. Available / not available shows me always the Info Label. BUT QCAD has to be the active window on your system. If not - you’ll not see it. Just click the QCAD Title Bar (or what ever) to tell your OS that this application is now the active one and …

My Text is grey and white on a darker (I don’t believe that this color has a real name :open_mouth: ) background. That isn’t the same on your Win OS?

But I agree - the default theme is much more readable!

Yes, the tool tip pops up for me, too, and they look like your examples. I was referring to the (sometimes a little more verbose) description that shows up in place of the status bar at the bottom left when some of the buttons or menu items are hovered over.

Oups - yep … Status Bar. Sorry, my bad!

You are right. It looks like not all tools represented and the color contrast could be better …

I checked 110 HEX Color codes in the css but nothing changed that particular text … :cry:

Maybe it’s a default color instead… If so I guess (?) we would need to know the proper selector name to specifically assign a color. But I’m no CSS expert.

Yes that was my thought too. Unfortunately I’m in the same boot like you with css - maybe Andrew can give us a hint … ?