Max width of hint

When text in hint is really long, hint popup is stretched across the window / whole viewport (really hard to read :-), optimum for human eye is something like 80ch (in CSS), so could you restrict it for 400px eg? or something like that.

It'd be even harder to read if it was cut off at 400px... some might even say it'd be impossible!

You're wrong, of course. Do you think that one long line at 1600px is better and better to read?

• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/balancing-line-length-font-size-responsive-web-design/#the-ideal-measure-45-to-75-characters
• https://winterpm.com/#:~:text=Optimal%20line%20length%20or%20column,line%20before%20reading%20becomes%20tiring.

Wrong, huh? OK, tell me what this hint is (it's been cut off at 400px) - I ned to know what to do!

The hint texts contain preformatted text, and linebreaks. I could set HintInfo.HintMaxWidth to a pixel value of let's say 400px, which would not cut off lines but generate some unwanted additional linebreaks. I did that testwise here, see the yellow parts which are now moved to separate lines:

Maybe 400px is just a bad low value. @Kcko do you recall which hint exactly took too much width?

Good heavens - I never clocked they were multi-line - and so they are.

Oh well, I shall go stick my head in a bucket, and leave you to it :|

ansgar that's exactly what I meant! +1

notHeidi it doesn't matter, as long as you've understood it ;-)

That screen above was just a quick test on my side, it's not in the nightly builds.

Normally that help for COUNT looks ok to me:

I was thinking there were wider ones but I can't find any.

Looks good! But could you add some internal indentation on the sides? (padding in css language) :)

Yes, with some effort I could create a custom padding to all hints. But that looks wrong for the short hints:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79443544/delphi-hintwindow-with-padding

Padding is nice to have, not necessary. Max-width hint option is more than sufficient, thx a lot!