Whats the proper way to show a help field?

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Two things.


First, jacque makes a point, in that even with a toolTipDelay of 1 the toolTip itself is jittery. I guess it is really a note gizmo that in intended to tell you something while the mouse hovers over an object, and does not move overmuch. A field that tracks the mouseLoc is really much nicer, since many "mouseMove" messages are sent in a short time while the cursor is on the march. Can you do that? make it appear and disappear, and track? The toolTip handles that automatically, but is not as smooth at all.


Second, read up on the "mouseText". This can be used (unless there is some other relationship between the mouseLoc and your desired text) to great advantage. Do you see how to do this?


Craig



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From: William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org>
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Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: Whats the proper way to show a help field?


Craig:
Ok, let me see if I’ve got it.


on mouseMove
	put myText into toolTip —?? i.e. how do I get text that depends on the 
mouseLoc, into the tooltip contents?
	set the tooltip of me to the mouseLoc
end mouseMove

Tnx,
Bill


On Nov 19, 2014, at 8:32 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:

> Well, not quite. The toolTip is a property, and must be set directly. You 
might say it has no "text" property, being a property already. You might also 
say that the toolTip property is, already, its text.
> 
> 
> In other words, keep it simple. Just set it and go...
> 
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
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> Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 10:44 am
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> 
> 
> Craig,
> Thanks for that! No, I didn't know I could use the tooltip for that. So I 
could 
> do something like:
> "Set the text of the tooltip of me to mytext" as the mouse is moved?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 7:34 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Earthednet-wp <prothero at earthednet.org>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 1:04 am
>> 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
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