Is there a way in FM7 to make a small text box/balloon pop up when a user rolls the mouse pointer over a button without actually having to click the button ?

Version: v7.x

Platform: Windows XP

Hi shadow,

Try this link it does exactly what you are looking for.

Michael

There is also SimpleHelp plugin that will do what you are looking for. SimpleHelp

Steve

Wow...these plug-ins are great. Thanks.

Be careful with this plugin. I believe it has a bug which 24USoftware does not believe happens. I have seen it multiple times, and it goes like this: Ocassionally, (and probably on complicated layouts with portals), popup help from a previous layout seems to be active...if you cursor over a hot field from a previous layout the help text appears. I've gotten around the problem by scripting layout navigation and removing the help tags within the script, but its a real pain. The other problem is that the help tags only work in the 1st row of a portal, and there doesn't seem to be a good work for this.

This is clearly something FMI should have had the brains to implement in V 7, but as we know, they have their heads buried so far up their collective butts that we are stuck with a barely adequate solution.

Steve