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Styling Tooltips
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:40 pm
by davec
Does anyone know if it's possible to style the tooltips in Rev? i.e determine the size, type and colour of the font and the tooltip background.
Thanks,
Dave.
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:51 pm
by Klaus
Hi Dave,
no, sorry, the "internal" tooltips can only be used "as is".
But you could fake your own styled tooltip with fields, groups or even extra stacks (opened as palette).
Best
Klaus
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:29 pm
by davec
Hi Klaus
Thanks for the tip
(sorry, no pun intended!).
I'll think on how to implement your ideas. If I understand, you're suggesting to open a floating (palette?) stack at the current mouse position. The stack window has no decoration I guess. That's a nice idea.
Thanks,
Dave.
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:02 pm
by davec
Thought I would chip in again and say that the idea of a stack works really well. Thanks!
I set the style of the stack to float above everything and got rid of the title bar. I guess the code will be something like this;
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on mouseEnter
if tipsOn then
set the location of stack "tip" to the mouseLoc
set the visible of stack "tip" to true
end if
end mouseEnter
on mouseLeave
set the visible of stack "tip" to false
end mouseLeave
Maybe add a short delay befor the tip is shown.
Cheers,
Dave.
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:12 pm
by Mark
Hi Davec,
You can find a plugin called Pointer Tooltip here:
http://economy-x-talk.com/developers.html
This might inspire you to make something similar. Sorry, the scripts of this plugin are not freely accessible at the moment.
Best,
Mark
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:23 pm
by davec
Mark, thank you for the link. Unfortunalty, I could not get the plugin to operate under Rev 2.1 (I know!
) on Windows 2000. I would have liked to see it.
Once I get my mits on an updated Rev (they
will buy me an upgrade at work or else!) I'll try using an alpha channel window to make a nice looking balloon tip.
Anyway, thanks again.
Dave.