Is duration (not delay) of the toolTip adjustable

Mon Feb 20 09:45:06 EST 2006

Hi Martin and Tom,

Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 13:29 Europe/Paris, Martin Blackman a écrit :

> Why not have your own 'tooltip' field that you show for as long as
> required. Set its layer so it is above the other field(s), update its
> contents and move it to the mouseloc or nearby before showing it. Then
> hide it when ready eg, send 'disappear' to field "theTooltip" in 1
> second . (The disappear handler being : hide me)
You are right ! I thought to this solution and I was keeping it in  
reserve, in case of no success with the tooltip !
I kept trying the tooltip solution, because, In my current case, (or if  
my current case then :-))), using the tooltip has an advantage that has  
not a normal field : it possibly overshoots the (right) edge of the  
window.

Currently, after studying the Tom' stacks,  I scripted a tooltip  
solution  that consists (in summary) in calling twice the tooltip,   
waiting 5 sec between the two ; and,just before the second call, I  
reduce the tooltipdelay to the minimum (1) (resuming the default value  
on mouseUp); thus, there is a very short interruption between the two  
presentations, actually nearly unnoticeable.

Thanks a lot for your attention to my problem

Best regards from Grenoble
André

>
>
> On 20/02/06, André. Bisseret <Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr> wrote:
>> 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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