[hobbit] Feature request: DESCR popup

[Johann Eggers]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Freitag, 20. Juli 2007 13:33
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Feature request: DESCR popup
> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Johann Eggers wrote:
> > I like the functionality that when you hook the mousepointer over a
dot
> > a small box pops up and displays information in the form
> > column:color:duration.
> >
> > I (and also a lot of people in my company) would like to see this
also
> > for the hostname links. If a DESCR tag is in the bb-hosts file for
this
> > host it's content should be displayed in the little pop-up box. This
way
> > it's not necessary to view the info column each time to get this
info.
> 
> OK, thanks to Marco Schoemaker's hint on how to do this in HTML,
> I've cooked up a patch that should do this.
> 
> Unlike Marco, I don't want to introduce yet another special tag for
> the tooltip. It will display the COMMENT text, or the DESCR text
> if there's no COMMENT defined. If neither exists, it will just
> display the hostname.
> 
> The attached patch is based on the current snapshot, but modified so
> it should work with Hobbit 4.2.0. Those on the bleeding edge version
> will have to wait for tonights snapshot.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik

Thanks a lot for this very quick implementation!!

I've tried it at my test system and it works perfect. Exactly what I had
in mind when writing my mail to the list.

This (and all the others in the past) is a pretty good example of how
flexible, quick and uncomplicated open source development is; espacially
compared to commercial products.

Thanks again for all the contribution!

Regards
Johann