Tooltip for groups

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat Nov 15 14:44:32 EST 2003


I have a unique suggestion... use the label property of the group to say
what the group contains, and then set the showname to true.

Voila, no tooltip needed! ;-)

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> J. Landman Gay
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:17 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Tooltip for groups
> 
> 
> On 11/15/03 10:37 AM, jbv wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>For me this is pretty much a non-issue. I routinely solve 
> this problem 
> >>by placing a transparent button or empty image object behind 
> >>everything else. Make it layer 1 in the group. That way, objects on 
> >>top of it which have tooltips will respond with their own 
> tip. Spaces 
> >>between objects respond with the layer-1 object tooltip. 
> It's a very 
> >>easy fix and doesn't require any engine changes or even any 
> scripting.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Yep, except that it doesn't solve the problem : with your solution, 
> > you'll never display a unique tooltip when user points at the group 
> > (except if you set all tooltips of all the objects of that group to 
> > the same content - and if that content needs to be changed 
> on-the-fly, 
> > then some scripting is required). Besides, placing a transparent 
> > object behind everything will show a tooltip when pointing at empty 
> > spaces between objects, which is not really usefull...
> 
> I guess I misunderstood what you were after. I thought the above was 
> what you wanted. After reading your reply to Scott Rossi, I 
> see now what 
> you are trying to do; you want a tooltip that acts as though 
> a grouped 
> set of controls were a single control.
> 
> I can see some potential interface problems with this though. If your 
> group has only a single functionality -- for example, clicking on the 
> group as a whole produces a single action -- then a 
> transparent button 
> over the top would give you what you want. You could script 
> the button 
> to trigger the necessary action.
> 
> If the group instead has several buttons or controls, each of which 
> respond independently to user actions, then I'm not sure a single 
> tooltip is the best choice. Each control should probably have its own 
> tool tip. But I'm still not clear on what you need, so maybe 
> I'm off base.
> 
> Can you explain more what the group does and how it reacts?
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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