Showing linkText on mouse over

[Devin Asay]

On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote:

> hello,
>
> What I mean is this:
>
> Pretend the following is a link:    Q
>
>
> When your mouse moves over the Q, you display a field that shows  
> the content
> of the linktext. You have to make sure the position of that field  
> does not
> cover the link, and that it moves with the mouse.

Ah, I see. Actually my situation is a bit different. The field I am  
putting the contents of the linkText into is in a fixed location  
below the field with the links in it, so there is never a physical  
interference between the two. What I was finding was that using  
either a mouseWithin or a mouseMove handler was somehow preventing  
the linkClicked handler from being invoked when I clicked on some  
linked text. The visited property of the linked text chunk would even  
get set to true and the text would change to the visited color, but  
the linkClicked handler would intermittently not run. I solved it by  
adding 'if the mouse is down then exit mouseWithin' at the beginning  
of my mouseWithin handler.

Thanks.

devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University