Is duration (not delay) of the toolTip adjustable

[Thomas McGrath III]

André,

I tried your script and it works reasonably well. I'm not sure how  
much better you could make it without creating your own tooltip windows.

GTH

Tom

On Feb 20, 2006, at 2:46 PM, André.Bisseret wrote:

> -----------------------
> ---In the script of the field :
> Remind you : the field contains titles of texts (not wrapped  
> lines) ; some lines are too long to be entirely visible. To avoid  
> the use of the horizontal scrollBar (I maintained it anyway) the  
> user can maintain the mouseDown on a line, must have enough time to  
> read the all line in the toolTip or, at any time during the toolTip  
> display, s(he) must be able to stop displaying the toolTip.
> ----------------------------------------------
> on mouseDown
>   set the toolTipDelay to 150
>   seeToolTip
>   wait 5 seconds with messages
>   set the toolTipDelay to 1
>   seeToolTip
> end mouseDown
>
> on seeToolTip
>   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 seeToolTip
>
> on mouseUp
>   set the toolTip of me to empty
>   set the toolTipDelay to 500
>   exit to top
> end mouseUp
> ------------------------------------------

Thomas J McGrath III
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