Adding '(?)' help popups to config panel elements?

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

I have some advanced configuration options for one of the plugins I'm
developing, and I'd like to hang a click-on help icon on them to pop
up an explanatory blurb. Similar to the help icon on the plugin item
itself on the plugin admin page (which gets its text from the
.plugin.xml file).

Are there any plugins that already do something like that?
Alternatively, is there a way to attach an anchor <a> to a plugin
config field <div>, since <a> isn't a form element?

In a similar vein, is there any facility in the Habari FormUI for
'twisties'? (You know, those little boxed '+' you click on, which
turns it to a boxed '-' and exposes hidden elements..)

Thanks!
--
Ken Coar
OSS developer, opinionist, author, and sanagendamgagwedweinini

[Philip Olson]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> I have some advanced configuration options for one of the plugins I'm
> developing, and I'd like to hang a click-on help icon on them to pop
> up an explanatory blurb. Similar to the help icon on the plugin item
> itself on the plugin admin page (which gets its text from the
> .plugin.xml file).
>
> Are there any plugins that already do something like that?
> Alternatively, is there a way to attach an anchor <a> to a plugin
> config field <div>, since <a> isn't a form element?

There's a 0.7+ feature that approaches this idea, which may help:

- http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/pluggable#help

And here's a fairly recent thread that stumbled upon this feature:

- http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev/browse_thread/thread/c64b472aa55875f4

Regards,
Philip