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Level 1

4 points

Tooltip location / size

Does anybody know how to change the location or increase the size of a Tooltip (item's help tag) with a larger than normal mouse pointer?

As making an adjustment to the mouse cursor size, covers the Tooltip, which is always below the item AND below the mouse pointer.

Posted on Aug 23, 2010 10:00 AM

3 replies

Level 9

62,466 points

Aug 23, 2010 10:58 AM in response to ba rok

Start with http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061107125819464 and http://www.macworld.com/article/55202/2007/02/termtooltips.html

Level 1

4 points

Aug 23, 2010 11:37 AM in response to baltwo

The application - Tool Tipper - as listed on the above posted webpage link does what I asked.

Level 9

62,466 points

Aug 23, 2010 11:57 AM in response to ba rok

Thanks for the feedback. Good computing.

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