Make the data ticker display of average values more succinct.

USE CASE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

Conserve space in the data ticker & make it more succinct and easy to read/follow.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE AN ISSUE (OR TRIGGER A NEW FEATURE)

Hover over a tree
Hover over a label
Hover off the treeview app window

CURRENT BEHAVIOR

As of PR 90, the data ticker display of average values is not as succinct as it could be. E.g. "Data value: -0.675 [row/tree ave]". Also, "tree" seems a small bit vague - not as accurate as "row" or "col".

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Something more succinct could be achieved and still convey the same info if we changed the "Data Value: " string. Also, "subtree" could be more accurate than "tree". E.g. When hovering over a tree, the display could be: "Subtree Ave: -0.675" instead of "Data value: -0.675 [tree ave]". And when hovering over a row label, it could be "Row Ave: -0.675" instead of "Data value: -0.675 [row ave]". When hovering off the app window, the display could be "Data Ave: -0.675" (or if zoomed: "Zoom Ave: -0.675").

Note that in order to make the value change easy to visually follow, the ":" in every string should be fixed in place so that the users eyes do not have to move to watch read the values as the mouse hover moves. In other words, the place where the "Data value: " and other associated strings go should be a constant width and all the strings should be right-justified. And all the values (e.g. "-0.675") should be left justified.

DEVELOPERS ONLY SECTION

SUGGESTED CHANGE (Pseudocode optional)

none

FILES AFFECTED (where the changes will be implemented) - developers only

unknown

LEVEL OF EFFORT - developers only

trivial

COMMENTS

This issue was created from an issue during review of pull request #90.

Related to issue ~~#442~~.

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