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Re: Tool tips
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 7:08 pm
by anmldr
Nope, Richmond62. Zooming like that will not work for me either. For one, I will probably get motion sickness with constant zooming in and zooming out. Seriously, not teasing about the motion sickness.
BTW, the tooltip is still hidden by the cursor when zooming.
I will do OK until/if LC changes the behavior. I will continue on as I have been doing.
Linda
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 7:14 pm
by anmldr
Now, if only the IDE would work the way that your stack works with the tooltips, all would be well.
It is not stacks that I am making that have the problem, it is the LiveCode IDE that has the problem. I have not tried putting tooltips in the practice stacks that I have made so far.
But, as I mentioned before, it may be a Mac problem that LC cannot correct.
Linda
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 7:14 pm
by richmond62
Pop over to the Feature request I filed and see what you think, and add as much as you want.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:41 pm
by bogs
That picture you posted is an excellent example of what I said earlier Linda. As for attaching it to a bug report, you just click on 'Attachment' at the top'ish part of the page, and you can attach pictures and such.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 10:40 pm
by anmldr
you can attach pictures
Done
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 8:08 pm
by jacque
richmond62 wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 7:02 pm
My personal preference (just to throw a spanner in the works) is to use bespoke images for tooltips when necessary.
It's easier to display a field which can be reused for every tooltip and doesn't require creating and storing all those image files. Set a custom property of each object to the tooltip text and put that text into the field before displaying it. You not only have the advantage of all the custom appearance properties that fields support, you can also easily change the tooltip by updating the custom property at any time.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 9:10 pm
by richmond62
Code: Select all
on mouseEnter
set the text of fld "tipper" to the toolTip of me
set the topLeft of fld "tipper" to the bottomRight of me
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
set the topLeft of fld "tipper" to the bottomRight of this card
end mouseLeave
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Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 4:21 am
by jacque
That's the idea. I usually just show and hide the field though.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:05 am
by richmond62
Set a custom property of each object to the tooltip text and put that text into the field before displaying it.
The custom property seemed an unnecessary step.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:32 am
by richmond62
Ultimately my recipe is no good for several reasons:
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1. Field gets chopped off by edge of stack.
2. Original tooltips show up as well.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:49 am
by richmond62
This is a better bet:
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Tooltips appear in a field in a substack.
Code: Select all
on mouseEnter
set the text of fld "tipper" of stack "TopTips" to the toolTip of me
put the bottomRight of me into BR
set the topLeft of stack "TopTips" to BR
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to true
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to false
end mouseLeave
Although as there is a conflict between bottomRight of an object on a card
and topLeft of a palettised stack the tooltips do not appear in optimum locations (yet).
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:51 am
by richmond62
HOWEVER this is NOT what the OP was speirin after.
What the OP would like is big tooltips in the IDE for her own work.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 11:51 am
by richmond62
Reading the documentation re
location is not very helpful:
The location of an object is any expression that evaluates to a point --two integers separated by a comma. The first item of the location is the distance in pixels from the left edge of the screen (for stacks) or card (for other objects) to the center of the object. The second item is the distance in pixels from the top edge of the screen (for stacks) or card (for other objects) to the center of the object.
For cards, the location property is read-only and cannot be set.
As I should like to get the
location of an object on a card from the left edge of my monitor and from the top edge,
rather than its position relative to the card.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:12 pm
by richmond62
Code: Select all
on mouseEnter
set the text of fld "tipper" of stack "TopTips" to the toolTip of me
put the bottomRight of me into BR
put item 1 of the loc of this stack into SLR
put item 2 of the loc of this stack into SUD
put (the width of this stack)/2 into SL
put (the height of this stack)/2 into SH
put (SLR - SL) into LEDGE
put (SUD - SH) into TEDGE
put (LEDGE + (the right of me)) into RSIDE
put (TEDGE + (the bottom of me)) into OBBUM
set the topLeft of stack "TopTips" to (RSIDE, OBBUM)
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to true
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to false
end mouseLeave
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What a fiddle.
Re: Tool tips
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:32 pm
by richmond62
Ouch: this is a load of old scroobly:
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So:
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on mouseEnter
if the toolTip of me is empty then
-- do nix
else
set the text of fld "tipper" of stack "TopTips" to the toolTip of me
put the bottomRight of me into BR
put item 1 of the loc of this stack into SLR
put item 2 of the loc of this stack into SUD
put (the width of this stack)/2 into SL
put (the height of this stack)/2 into SH
put (SLR - SL) into LEDGE
put (SUD - SH) into TEDGE
put (LEDGE + (the right of me)) into RSIDE
put (TEDGE + (the bottom of me)) into OBBUM
set the topLeft of stack "TopTips" to (RSIDE, OBBUM)
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to true
end if
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
set the vis of stack "TopTips" to false
end mouseLeave