Feature: Replace the "partial results" tooltip with a permanent widget

[Former user]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 404

If the "calc-as-you-type" feature (which displays the "current result" or "selection
result" in a tooltip) is really worth having (I think it is), then it would be good
to put it in a permanent widget so that it is displayed all the time, instead of using
a tooltip, which disappears after a brief time.

This would mean that if you came back to Speedcrunch after doing something else, you
could immediately see where you were at.

Reported by Alister.Hood on 2012-06-04 06:11:05

[Former user]

``` Hi, Alister. Thanks for the suggeestion. If you had an option to keep the tooltip visible all the time would that suffice and make sense to you? ```

Reported by `helder.pereira.correia` on 2012-06-04 06:40:24

[Former user]

``` Yes, I guess so, although I'm not sure I'd still describe it as a tooltip in that case ;)

(sorry, I hit reply in Gmail, so I guess you'll probably get this as mail too) ```

Reported by `Alister.Hood` on 2012-06-04 08:35:38

[Former user]

Hi, I do not know how it appears in Microsoft Systems but here in Ubuntu 13.10 the partial
result in the tool-tip covers the editing line of calculation causing troubles. It
would be better to place it other where maybe at the far right or to place it visible
as a permanent textarea.

Thx

Reported by alessandro.dincal on 2014-01-03 14:07:35

[Former user]

Alessandro, can you please upload a screenshot illustrating what you described? I'm
using 12.04 here and I've never seen that issue.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-01-04 03:35:59

[Former user]

I am on mac os and find it extremely annoying the tooltip that covers the input field.
It's impossible to see what you typing if you pause for a sec. How cna I disable the
tooltip overlay ? The only possible way I found is to invalidate the function adding
random letters then removing them before hitting enter (very frustrating)

Reported by diegotrazzi on 2014-01-13 19:24:10

[Former user]

Here is a screen grab

Reported by diegotrazzi on 2014-01-13 19:24:58

<hr> * Attachment: Screen Shot 2014-01-14 at 8.24.36 am.png<br>

[Former user]

Diego and Alessandro: can you check whether this occurs only with the status bar visible?
I'm still not able to reproduce this bug at all.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-01-13 22:43:51

[Former user]

Here it is.

Reported by alessandro.dincal on 2014-01-13 23:14:20

<hr> * Attachment: Schermata del 2014-01-14 00:12:58.png<br>

[Former user]

Furthermore the status bar doesn't change the issue.

Reported by alessandro.dincal on 2014-01-13 23:16:45

[Former user]

alessandro.dincal: From your screenshot I realized that you're talking about version
0.10.1. Are you able to build the current development code at all and try the current
state?

diegotrazzi: Are you also using version 0.10.1? If so, please see above.

Reported by helder.pereira.correia on 2014-01-14 02:24:38

[Felix Krull]

I can reproduce this on Ubuntu 14.04 with SpeedCrunch 0.10.1:

It's fine in master: