Whats the proper way to show a help field?

[William Prothero]

Thanks for the info, folks. Frankly, the field method seems better to me. I’ll use the “on mouse move x,y” method. I’ve already got it implemented, except that I was putting all of the action inside a repeat while loop, which was causing recursion limit problems occasionally. But, since the mouseMove message is initiated when the mouse moves, I won’t need to enclose the whole thing in a repeat while loop.

Thanks for the discussion.
Best,
Bill

On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> dunbarx wrote
>> [snip]
>> 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.
> 
> Could this work?
> 
> Here is a very simple method:
> 
> 1- Create a small field named "cursorpos"
> 2- Create an opaque rectangle graphic
> and put this script in the graphic:
> 
> on mousemove x,y
>   set the layer of fld cursorpos to the layer of me + 1
>   put x,y into fld cursorpos
>   set the topleft of fld cursorpos to x+20,y
> end mousemove
> 
> on mouseleave
>   hide fld cursorpos
> end mouseleave
> 
> on mouseenter
>   show fld cursorpos
> end mouseenter
> 
> Use contrasting colors for the background
> of the graphic and the small field.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
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