Hyperlinking and pop-ups

[pewebsterGAf8fa]

I am attempting to create a manual.
The user clicks an index item and is sent to the related card (eg Card A).

On Card A I use a scrolling field to display the related information. Sometimes the information on a card needs qualification with information on another card. I link to the other card using "on linkClick" to simulate a hyperlink.

Sometimes the qualified information is quite small and I have been using a button on Card A to display the information in a pop-up field using mouseDown - to show the field and mouseUp to hide the field.

A card could have both a hypertext link to another card and a button to pop-up of information. The problem is I have 2 navigation "styles" blue text for the hyperlink which is intuitive for most users experienced with the internet and bold black text where the user has to do a mental jump to "Oh there must be a button somewhere for a pop-up". If I wasn't using a scrolling field I would place a transparent button under the pop-up text and I would have the best of both worlds.

Is there any way to get the "on linkClick" to display the pop-up whilst the mouse is down and hide it when the mouse is up? If not, is there some other technique I could employ?

Thanks in anticipation

[Mark]

Hi,

You could use the mouseMove message to show a specific tooltip whenever the textStyle of the mouseChunk is "group" or "link" en run your current linkClicked handler just the way you already do.

Kind regards,

Mark

[pewebsterGAf8fa]

Mark, thank you very much. Your suggestion worked a treat.

on linkClicked myLink
if myLink contains "laws 3" then
go card "Laws 3 & 4"
end if
end linkClicked

on mouseMove
if the mouseChunk is not empty and \
"bold" is among the items of the textStyle of the mouseChunk \
and "italic" is among the items of the textStyle of the mouseChunk
then show image "appendix B1"
else hide image "appendix B1"
end mouseMove

In fact I may get rid of the on linkClicked entirely and use mouseMove for both

cheers

Paul