Is duration (not delay) of the toolTip adjustable
Thomas McGrath III
3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Mon Feb 20 11:09:59 EST 2006
André,
Would you care to share your script? Thanks.
Tom
On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:45 AM, André.Bisseret wrote:
> 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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>>>>>
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