Tool Tip

[Mindi]

When hovering over an object in a layout is there any way to get a tool tip or a help ballon?

[andygaunt]

Check out 24U. They have a tool tip plug-in.

http://www.24usoftware.com/plugins.php

[BrentHedden]

Has anyone actually used this tooltip plugin from 24U sucessfully? You have to program what exact pixel coordinates one tip covers, and it seemed rather awkward to me to program it. Maybe I complicated it too much.

[SteveB]

I have it and used it. It has some problems and issues. It's not too hard to set up, since it uses the parameters shown in the Object Size window. You'll need to enter them by hand into a script. It does not work inside of a portal, except on the 1st row. The problem I had and complained about, and find very annoying, is that you needed to remove the 'hot zones' when you leave the layout, otherwise they appeared in the same locations on other layouts when they shouldn't have. If you have users changing layouts frequently it must be done under script control, so that you can remove/add the mouse hot zones.

If those yahoos at FMI had any brains, they would have included 'mouse over' help as a native function a long time ago.

Steve

[BrentHedden]

Hmm... yea, sounds about right there, Steve. It's been a while since I toyed around with it, and now I remember the annoyances. Plus, it doesn't work in any kind of web interface (Flash would be a good choice in that situation).

That's one thing Microsoft did right with Visual Basic - it's incredibly easy to add tool tips to objects.