Info Tip

The Info Tip page in the file type editor lets you define what is shown on the info tip (the popup tooltip) that's displayed when the mouse hovers over files of this type.

When Opus looks for an info tip to display for a file, it checks file types in the following order:

  1. The specific file type for that file (e.g. for a .jpg file this might be the JPEG Image file type)
  2. The file type group that contains that file extension (e.g. Images)
  3. The Recognized images file type if the file is a recognized image file
  4. The All files file type (or for a folder, All folders)
  5. The All files and folders file type.

 

The first, most specific, info tip found is the one used. So if you want to assign an info tip to all members of a group you can edit the file type group definition, and then override it on a per file-type basis if needed.

Images Infotip.png 

The info tip definition (the image above illustrates the default info tip for the Images group) uses various {..} codes to insert information about the file into the info tip. Each line in the edit field corresponds to a line in the info tip. If a line in the definition uses a code that isn't valid for the specified file (for example, a .bmp file doesn't support EXIF metadata in it, and so fields like {cameramake} would be empty), the whole line is omitted from the info tip. You can have multiple codes on the one line and in that case, the line is only omitted if all codes on the line are empty.

Infotip - jpeg.png Infotip - bmp.png

You can see that for the .jpg file in the above screenshot, all the EXIF information defined in the info tip is shown, but the info tip for the .bmp file simply displays the top line ({desc} produces the 800 x 599 x 24 Bitmap Image description and {thumbnail} displays the image's thumbnail).

 

The keywords used in info tips are the same as used by the Rename function when renaming files using metadata, and the Set command when adding and removing columns to the file display. See the Keywords for Columns page for a full list of supported keywords. There are several special keywords that are specific to the info tip definition:

 

Any text you enter into the info tip definition that isn't a {..} code is displayed as-is (unless it appears on a line that uses a non-applicable {..} code, in which case the whole line is omitted as described above). You can also use some simple HTML-style markup codes to control font styles in the info tip:

 

At the bottom of the info tip page are several buttons: