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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: JaredH on April 03, 2006, 12:35:51 pm
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Quote from: JaredH on April 02, 2006, 11:53:37 PM
For months now, the tooltip on my MC tray icon has shown truncated playing now information.
(http://www.bgracetfaith.net/misc/tooltip.jpg)
Is there a certain limit on the amount of characters the tooltip will show?
Yes, there's a Windows limit of 64 characters.
To my knowledge, Foobar2000's tray icon shows much more than 64 characters in their tooltip. The last time I checked at least. Perhaps someone on the forum who uses foobar2000 as well could chime in on this one.
I know it's always dangerous territory when we start pointing at others and saying "well they do it, why don't you" but I think this is an instance where it applies quite well. Seems logical to me to either have all the information its trying to show, or none, not half-way.
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The limit varies depending on your version of IE.
MC uses 64 characters as the limit because this is always safe.