[jira] Resolved: (DIRSTUDIO-234) Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip explaining *why* they're greyed out

["Stefan Seelmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO-234?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stefan Seelmann resolved DIRSTUDIO-234.
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    Resolution: Fixed

There seems to be no easy way to have tooltips for disabled menu items (it is necessary to draw them yourself). 

The following actions are now always enabled:
- New Attribute/Value
- Edit Value
- Delete Entry/Attribute/Value

If an action makes no sense a warning message pops up, these situations are:
- Add another value to single-valued attriubte
- Add attribute that is not allowed according to the object classes
- Add, modify or delete a read-only attributes
- Delete the RDN attribute
- Delete a mandatory attribute
- Delete a object class and not all attributes are included in the remaining object classes

What is missing now is an option to avoid these warning popups, see DIRSTUDIO-459.


> Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip explaining *why* they're greyed out
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>                 Key: DIRSTUDIO-234
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO-234
>             Project: Directory Studio
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: studio-ldapbrowser
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1
>         Environment: OSX 10.4
>            Reporter: Alan Batie
>            Assignee: Stefan Seelmann
>             Fix For: 1.4.0
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> All GUIs should have a tool tip explaining why something is greyed out and what needs to be done to make it active (and it needs to be *useful* information, not just "it doesn't apply" or "you're not allowed to do that now" --- it's obvious the *application* thinks that because it's greyed out).  In this case, I did a search against our ldap server, found an attribute that needed removing and did so.  Then I did another search.  This time the font changed to italic, and when I go to delete an attribute, Delete is greyed out.  There is no clue anywhere as to what's going on.  I searched in help for the ldap browser, and found very little.

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