[Ham-Mac] More on Call Sign Hover Popup Issue with MacBooks

[Dick Kriss]

As  a test I installed fldigi-3.21.72 on my wife's MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.4 and made sure the Tool Tips option was checked.  Yes, I have the current cty.dat and lotw1.txt files in my .fldigi folder. The normal fldigi tool tips work fine; however, I was not able to get a hover popup on incoming call. I was not hooked up to radio, but I typed a call and sent it to the Rx panel. The call was there and when I hovered over the call nothing happened. I tried it using the trackpad and the bluetooth Magic Mouse and neither worked.  Nada on the hover call popup.  I have not problems with the hover on my iMac so the issue seems to be unique to  MacBooks, OS X version or operator error.

If you have a MacBook and the hover over a call sign produces a popup, please speak up on your setup.  Several of us have observed this issue and I think we are all using 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. Sure would like to hear from someone using a MacBook with OS X 10.6 or OS X 10.7. Again, the tool tips work. The issue is only with the hover popup.

Dick AA5VU

Ps: Frank AF0XX indicated his tool tips work but has not commented on the hover popup. 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net>
> Subject: Re: Tool Tips on MacBook Air
> Date: July 5, 2013 6:26:56 AM CDT
> To: fldigi list <linuxham at yahoogroups.com>, ham-mac radio applications <ham-mac at mailman.qth.net>
> 
> Frank AF0XX,
> 
> Please share your OS X trackpad settings as several fldigi user have contacted me (off-line) about having trouble getting the fldigi mouse hover to display the popup on call signs in received pane using a MacBook Air. Their tool tips work but they cannot get the hover-over-a -Call Sign to work with Mac trackpad equipped laptops.
> 
> Dick AA5VU 
> 
> 
> --- In linuxham at yahoogroups.com, Frank Fox <frankcfx at ...> wrote:
>> 
>> This pst week I have been installing a new macbook air at the a station. My tool tips work fine. I am not running Linux, †I just loaded the OSX †version from the down load page.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Frank
>> AF0XX / NNN0IQV-NCA
>> Sent from my MAC
>