Tab Preview Discussion

Ria · Post by **Ria** » July 8th, 2005, 1:06 am

I'm having a problem with TabPreview at the moment: it jumps or disappears after one second. It seems to have problems with tooltips.

Greg K Nicholson · Post by **Greg K Nicholson** » July 12th, 2005, 1:06 am

Using recent en-US trunk nightlies on Windows, Tab Preview works as advertised; but using the equivalent recent en-GB trunk nightlies with the same profile, the preview area is always filled grey.

Any idea why?

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » July 13th, 2005, 8:05 am

Greg K Nicholson wrote:Using recent en-US trunk nightlies on Windows, Tab Preview works as advertised; but using the equivalent recent en-GB trunk nightlies with the same profile, the preview area is always filled grey.

Any idea why? :)

Greg: check about:buildconfig, make sure it has --enable-canvas

Greg K Nicholson · Post by **Greg K Nicholson** » July 13th, 2005, 8:15 am

Ted Mielczarek wrote:Greg: check about:buildconfig, make sure it has --enable-canvas

Aha - it doesn't. Thanks.

Ria · Post by **Ria** » July 13th, 2005, 1:26 pm

Sorry - I had forgotten my post. Screenshots of the problem (tooltip makes tabpreview jump away after 1 second):

With the tabs on the bottom it does not jump but disappears simply.
The problem began a few days before I reported it here. It still continues in the latest hourly. Tested several times on a empty profile on different Win XP computers.

Regressed between ID:2005070708 and ID:2005070711.

Greg K Nicholson · Post by **Greg K Nicholson** » July 14th, 2005, 4:47 am

Ria wrote:Sorry - I had forgotten my post. Screenshots of the problem (tooltip makes tabpreview jump away after 1 second):

[snip]

With the tabs on the bottom it does not jump but disappears simply.
The problem began a few days before I reported it here. It still continues in the latest hourly. Tested several times on a empty profile on different Win XP computers.

Regressed between ID:2005070708 and ID:2005070711.

Before this began happening, the tooltips weren't appearing at all (whether by design or not).

supernova_00 · Post by **supernova_00** » July 17th, 2005, 8:57 am

any new versions of this, plus the download link isn't working.

supernova_00 · Post by **supernova_00** » July 17th, 2005, 9:03 am

^sorry is working just didnt when i cliked on the link, had to drag and drop into extension manager

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » August 1st, 2005, 4:41 am

Greg K Nicholson wrote:
Ria wrote:Sorry - I had forgotten my post. Screenshots of the problem (tooltip makes tabpreview jump away after 1 second):

[snip]

With the tabs on the bottom it does not jump but disappears simply.
The problem began a few days before I reported it here. It still continues in the latest hourly. Tested several times on a empty profile on different Win XP computers.

Regressed between ID:2005070708 and ID:2005070711.

Before this began happening, the tooltips weren't appearing at all (whether by design or not).

That was by design. I'll have to look at that. It was pretty fragile code anyway.

-Ted

indicavia · Post by **indicavia** » October 14th, 2005, 10:49 am

Any progress on this?

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » October 18th, 2005, 6:21 am

indicavia wrote:Any progress on this?

I swear I'll fix it this week or next! I've been really busy. Hey, at least FF1.5 isn't out of beta yet. :)

-Ted

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » October 20th, 2005, 1:32 pm

0.3 is available, including Mike's cool options panel. Also fixes that tooltip problem.
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/

ronin712 · Post by **ronin712** » October 23rd, 2005, 3:47 pm

Ted,

This is a really cool extension! I have a couple of comments/suggestions:

1) Regarding the preview delay, currently you can either have no delay or a delay for every preview. I think it would be more useful for the setting to control the delay of the first preview, and previews following the first would have zero delay (this is how windows native tool tips work). Rationale: You don't always want to see the previews, hence the first preview delay. But once you get the first preview, you are presuming looking for something so you don't want to wait for subsequent previews.

2) It looks like there is a hard coded maximum for the preview size. It would be nice if you could resize bigger than the current maximum and the options should indicate either what the ranges are or tell you when you enter a value that is out of range.

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » October 23rd, 2005, 4:08 pm

ronin712 wrote:1) Regarding the preview delay, currently you can either have no delay or a delay for every preview. I think it would be more useful for the setting to control the delay of the first preview, and previews following the first would have zero delay (this is how windows native tool tips work). Rationale: You don't always want to see the previews, hence the first preview delay. But once you get the first preview, you are presuming looking for something so you don't want to wait for subsequent previews.

That makes sense, I'll look into doing that.

ronin712 wrote:2) It looks like there is a hard coded maximum for the preview size. It would be nice if you could resize bigger than the current maximum and the options should indicate either what the ranges are or tell you when you enter a value that is out of range.

Unfortunately that limit isn't something I made up, it just seems to be the maximum size I can make a popup, for some reason. I may need to do some more research to figure out why, but I'm not sure it's something I can easily fix. But yes, the options page ought to tell you what the max is.

-Ted

suryoyo · Post by **suryoyo** » November 8th, 2005, 4:27 pm

Guys, I'm getting just a blank outline when clicking on the tabs, there is no preview inside of the square outline. I'm running a 9-21 branch build I think it's 1.5b2 x64 version by mmoy.
Any ideas why it's not working?