What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML <a title="some hover text"> parameter?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/5/11 6:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
> Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTML<a>  links within a LiveCode field.
> The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the link<a/>
> tag itself and 'set the linktext to<uri>' provides the 'href'
> parameter.
>
> But is there an equivalent of the HTML link title parameter at the
> field/text level? There doesn't seem to be a linkTitle property - and
> Tooltip is an object-level property.
>
> Indeed, are mouse-hover tooltips within a field supported as a native
> feature? Best, Keith..

You can invent your own HTML tags (or use "linkTitle", which LiveCode 
will believe is custom) and use those to detect if a tooltip should be 
displayed. You'll have to track mousemove and then get the textstyle of 
the mousetext. If it's your custom tag then display a tooltip. 
Fortunately the mousetext grabs the whole link text as one "word" so you 
don't need to do any text parsing to figure it out.

When changing tooltips in a field, you need to set the tooltip to empty 
and then to the new one, otherwise it won't change.

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