Whats the proper way to show a help field?

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Hi again.


Not sure what you mean. You do know that the tooltip is a property, and need not just be fixed text, right?



on mouseMove
   set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc
end mouseMove


Try this in your rect. You will want to make sure to knock off the toolTipDelay.


Craig



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Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?


Yeah, I use the tool tips a lot. But the field I need displays the x,y values 
under a data plot, as the user moves the mouse within the plot axes boundary. . 
In that way, the user gets a convenient way of getting values from a data plot. 
Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:20 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Have you ever used a toolTip? They follow like a loyal dog.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> 
> -----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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