Is duration (not delay) of the toolTip adjustable

[André.Bisseret]

Hi Tom,
Thank you for your "Longer toolTip" stack. I would very much get  
durations like those of button 2 or even button 3, that work very nicely

But, in my case I can't, I am afraid ! I must manage lines of text in a  
field ; I can't use "on mouseEnter" ; I must use "mouseDown" because I  
need to get the text of the line on which the cursor is located, and  
this, ONLY starting from an intended action  from the user.

I tried diverse solutions inspired by your button 3 script, but without  
any success (Could be I miss some way)

As Éric told me, the best I obtained was flickering tooltips :-((

Anyway thanks a lot Tom ; I keep your solution in memory

Bests regards from Grenoble
André


Le Saturday, 18 Feb 2006, à 20:11 Europe/Paris, Thomas McGrath III a  
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> I have uploaded a sample stack to my user space that will display a  
> tooltip for a longer period of time than the standard tooltips using  
> standard tooltips. It also shows how to display a multiple tooltip but  
> that part does not always work for some reason.
>
> User space: mcgrath3
> Stack: Longer Tooltips in Revolution
>
>
> HTH
>
> Tom
>
> Any ides why the second button only shows the second tooltip  
> occasionally????
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>
>> Re Bonjour André,
>>
>> Afraid there is no way to master the duration for which a tooltip is  
>> displayed.
>> The only thing you can do is to re-display the tooltip repeatedly...
>> But flickering would probably appear...
>> Not a very good answer :-(
>>
>> Le 18 févr. 06 à 18:05, André.Bisseret a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> The app. I am developing is a set of texts, one on each card.
>>> On a special card, accessible from the homeCard, there is a field  
>>> that displays the list of all the titles of the texts.
>>> Of course, this field has a vertical scrollBar but also an  
>>> horizontal one, because some titles are  longer than the width of  
>>> the field.
>>> I am not very happy about this horizontal scrollBar, from an  
>>> ergonomical point of view.
>>> So I will keep it, but I would like to add a redundant way to  
>>> reading the ends of the longs titles.
>>> Thanks to Tutorials Picker 2.0, that I « picked » on the site So  
>>> Smart Software of Éric Chatonet,  I discovered «  How to create  
>>> contextual toolTips on-the-fly ».
>>> Reading this tutorial, I got the idea of using « toolTips ».
>>>
>>> Below is the handlers I wrote in the script of the TitlesField :
>>> ----------------------------
>>> local tLine
>>>
>>> on mouseDown
>>>   put word 2 of the mouseLine into tLine
>>>   set the tooltip of me to empty
>>>   set the toolTip of me to line tLine of me
>>> end mouseDown
>>> ----------------
>>> on mouseUp
>>>   set the toolTip of me to empty
>>> end mouseUp
>>>  ---------------------------
>>> I put this « mouseUp handler » because the toolTip stays there for a  
>>> certain time that is constant before disappearing.
>>> I want to avoid constraining the user to wait for all this time.
>>> That works well but, on the other hand, this constant duration is  
>>> sometimes a bit too short to read comfortably the longs titles in  
>>> the toolTip.
>>> There is my problem : Is there a possibility to set the duration of  
>>> toolTip display ? In fact I would need to get it longer.
>>> I searched diverse ressources (with « Ressources Picker », of  
>>> course) but I did not find any answer to this question.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any idea,
>>>
>>> Best regards from Grenoble
>>> André
>>
>> Best Regards from Paris,
>> Eric Chatonet
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