Whats the proper way to show a help field?

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-----Original Message-----
From: William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org>
To: Use-livecode Use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tue, Nov 18, 2014 6:01 pm
Subject: Whats the proper way to show a help field?


Folks:
I have a help field that I want to pop up and follow the mouse when it’s within 
a specific rect. What I’m doing is showing the x,y values in a data plot region. 
So, I do something like:

on mouseEnter
  doTheDisplay
end mouseEnter

on doTheDisplay
  repeat while the mouseLoc is within theRect
     doStuff that shows the field and its contents
  end repeat
end doTheDisplay	

The problem with this is I am getting “Recursion Limit” errors. 


William A. Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org/

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