Don't want help balloons

Rick Averill · Post by **Rick Averill** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:36 pm

Now that I'm getting used to DP5, the little help balloons on the mouse-overs are just getting in the way. Is there any way to toggle them off?

gearboy · Post by **gearboy** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:52 pm

Unfortunately, there is not.

Resonant Alien · Post by **Resonant Alien** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:03 pm

You mean you actually knew that the long slider thingy was a fader BEFORE the balloon pop up told you that it was a "Fader", or that they knob on the mixing board was a pan knob without needing the "Pan" pop up balloon?

Yup, unfortunately, those damn things are there until MOTU decides to write a couple lines of code to disable them..........

rcannonp · Post by **rcannonp** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:05 pm

There is a way to set the delay before they pop up to a longer interval. You can set it to such a long interval that they are likely to never actually pop up. It takes some terminal fiddling. I've been trying to look up how to do this, but I haven't been able to find it.

rcannonp · Post by **rcannonp** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:39 pm

Here is what I was looking for.

UnicorNation.com :: View topic - DP POP-UP HELP

I guess that I never read far enough into the thread to see that it wasn't working.

mckelly · Post by **mckelly** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:45 pm

Better than a luftballoon.

ryst · Post by **ryst** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:00 pm

mckelly wrote:Better than a luftballoon.

Or 99 of them.

kurtl · Post by **kurtl** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:59 pm

I tried the fix with terminal and it does not work on DP. It does work the Mac OS though.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:46 pm

That is correct. The timing in DP seems to be set by MOTU, not the OS. Thus the little terminal trick does not change it. (This topic went around a couple of months ago)

Shooshie

dpdan · Post by **dpdan** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:05 pm

yep this topic did go around a while ago, and I started it, and I'm still incredibly aggravated at such a pathetic thing.

It acts the same way in Pro Tools, but who cares about that he he he

Dan

emulatorloo · Post by **emulatorloo** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:13 pm

There are a lot of things in my life right now that I don't want.

Compared to them, these annoying help balloons feel positively happy and cheery.

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