Notepad3: Option to disable the hyperlink hotspots tooltip

[omega32]

Hi. Is there an option to disable the new hyperlink hotspot tooltip, or any plans to implement one?
(_Ctrl + Click to open link in browser_).
I find it quite annoying. Thanks.

[hpwamr]

Hello @RaiKoHoff,
I agree with @omega32 , it's quite distracting,
My opinion, remove it completely, "Hyperlink hover rendering" is sufficient. 😉

Ed.: But if you keep it, please don't repeat the URL in the Calltip box (just the msg: "Ctrl + Click to open link in browser").

[RaiKoHoff]

It is a kind of standard, that hovering over a link will show the target of the link in a tooltip.
It is clear, that for Notepad3 (vs. e.g. websites) the target and the textual representation are the same,
so I will add an option to disable that. For the rookie user, it should be shown, so default will be ON.

[hpwamr]

It is a kind of standard, that hovering over a link will show the target of the link in a tooltip.

You're right, in Visual Studio, this is the standard, except that the underlining of the URL is not highlighted when you hover over the URL. 🤔

[RaiKoHoff]

Please test beta version _5.19.518.1710_RC (see beta-channel access #1129).

[hpwamr]

Hi @RaiKoHoff ,
Thanks for the new design of the Hyperlink (aka MS VS, clean and discreet, idem for 2ND Default)
Also, thanks for the new option: View -> Display -> Show Hyperlink Tooltip

As far as I am concerned, this issue may be closed.... 🤔

[omega32]

Great. I like the new hyperlink styling a bit better.
And thanks for the option to disable it. 👍

One more suggestion, though.
I think what I dislike the most about the implementation of the tooltip, is not the tooltip itself, but the flickering of the cursor.

When you hover the hyperlink, the cursor changes from _IBeam_ (text selection) to _hand_ and back to _IBeam_. Also, when it's changing back from _hand_ to _IBeam_, there seems to be some sort of flickering.

I think a good way to handle this is how Visual Studio does it. When you hover a hyperlink in VS, the cursor remains _IBeam_ unless you press CTRL. Only when CTRL is down the cursor changes to a hand, suggesting with a visual cue that if you click, the link will open.

[RaiKoHoff]

Please test beta version _5.19.519.1712_RC (see beta-channel access #1129).

[omega32]

Great. Much better this way, I think. 👍
And, although I'm disabling the tooltip, I don't find it annoying anymore. Looks great actually.

[RaiKoHoff]

Scintilla bundled the "hand cursor" with the hotspot/indicator:hover styling (no API/option to change this), so I have to change Scintilla's source code for that (which I don't really like, cause it is effort to merge a new Scintilla version into Notepad3's code base, if these places change in future),
but the changes were only small, that is OK. 👍

[omega32]

Awesome. You got it quite fast considering you had to modify Scintilla's source code.
I'll try to lobby for them to include a way to handle this without the need to change the code.

[hpwamr]

As far as I am concerned, this issue may be closed....