Having tooltips for editor components is fantastic. Having those tooltips show up all the time is not. It’s incredibly annoying to, for example, be trying to move blueprint components around and having my view of where I’m placing them be blocked by a tooltip. Or editing the name of a variable only to not been able to see what I’m typing because there’s a tooltip in the way. Not only can I not find a way to make the tooltip activation time longer, there doesn’t even seem to be a way to make it go away other than to mouse off of what is causing it.
Please make the tooltips an opt-in experience. Namely, make it require a long intentional hover and not appear during drags or text entry. Only if the cursor movement was the last input and it has been placed over the same element for a significant amount of time.
I was digging and digging and couldn’t find how to change this, this is the newest thread in the top google results so i figured id reply here as likely many are hitting dead ends like i was.
In the “Enter Console Command” box under the Content Browser i entered “Slate.TooltipSummonDelay 1” (default is “0.15” that helped big time.
There’s also “Slate.TooltipIntroDuration” and “Slate.ToolTipWrapWidth” that i haven’t played with yet.
My only regret is that i have but one ‘like’ i can give. Thank you, editor tooltips were driving me crazy.
For those who don’t want to have to enter the command each time they restart the editor, you can add the following to your DefaultEditor.ini file
[ConsoleVariables]
Slate.TooltipSummonDelay=2
Alterantely if you prefer to edit the engine source, open Engine\Source\Runtime\Slate\Private\Framework\Application\SlateUser.cpp and change the default value for static float TooltipSummonDelay = 0.15f; to something more respectful.