making a tooltip (for Japanese)

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at comcast.net
Thu Oct 23 09:03:55 EDT 2008


Nicolas,

Go to the Rev Online User space "mcgrath3" and look at my sample  
tooltips stack "ToolTip Tricks". It shows many ways to play with  
tooltips that might help.

Tom McGrath III

On Oct 23, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> I'd like to add a tooltip with Japanese text to objects,
> and am looking for suggestions on how to script it.
>
> My thought is to add a script to an object which uses
> both "mousemove" to show a field (i.e.,the tooltip) and
> "send" to trigger a "hide field" after a few seconds.
>
> The trigger (which is the card) will also need to put off
> hiding the field so long as the mouseloc has changed.
>
> The challenge for me is how to measure whether the
> mouse has moved or not. All I can figure out is to add
> a "send" command to the trigger-script in the card
> which'll compare mouselocs both before and after
> the second send command.
>
> But, maybe there's a simpler way of doing this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Nicolas Cueto
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